Jason Sloan is an electronic musician, composer, new.media, sound and net.work artist working from Baltimore, Md. His work explores the aspects of spirituality and it’s connection in life, death, memory, systems and the virtual world. Through his performances, installations, audio environments, videos net.work actions and sound recordings, he examines the need for transcendence beyond the body through a vehicle of visual ritual and sonic stimulation. With this dialog, Sloan feels an urgency to evoke a collective experience between the viewer, listener and artist that can bridge the gap between the physical and non-physical world. The focus of this transcendence is not to conform to any current trends or systems, but to take a non-dogmatic approach of artistic and intellectual inquiry that explores the basic human need for some type of spiritual alignment or wholeness.
In 2002 Sloan co-founded SLO.BOR Media with composer and designer Matt Borghi as a vehicle for their individual releases and a platform for other artists.
Sloan received his BFA from Edinboro University in 1996 and his MFA from Towson University in 1999. In addition to being the recipient of a Maryland State Arts Council’s Individual Artist Award, Sloan’s performances, installations, net.art and video works have been exhibited internationally including Berlin, Copenhagen, Edinburgh, Kiev, Nagoya, Saint-Petersburg, Toulouse and Vienna. In addition to releasing over a dozen studio albums and e.p.’s over the last decade on various record labels, Sloan has played live all over the US and Canada, including the influential Live Constructions radio program at Columbia University and Philadelphia’s The Gatherings concert series, one of the country’s oldest continuing ambient and electronic music series.
Sloan is a Professor teaching full-time in the Interaction Design and Art [IDA] Department at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, Maryland.
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Jason Sloan Discography