JCS FUTURE is an evolving platform for JCS; a JCS Trinity: artist, existential being, and business. JCS FUTURE is the result of the American Dream Dystopia.
This portal also features JCS STUDIO: A Site Designed to Interface with My Clients for Video Production and Other Services. JCS STUDIO is Stage 1 of JCS as a Production Studio, using an LLC (formed in 2021 in Brownsville, TX). The main focus for now is JCS Video and Virtual Production along with Virtual Reality (VR) Project Development (including CURRENTS VR).
Originally Launched in 2023 as solely a hub for video production clients, JCS FUTURE will mutate in scope to feature JCS Works, News at the intersection of Art Ecology and Technology, and soon - Eco-Centric 'Merch.'
Jeffrey Charles Stanley | JCS (born Paducah, KY) is an interdisciplinary artist. JCS received an MFA in Transmedia from The University of Texas at Austin, and a BFA in Painting from Murray State University in Murray, Kentucky. Stanley’s work combines video and objects to build stories and environments about ecology and the human experience. JCS works across media arts, institutions, and public platforms to produce insight, share knowledge, and expand consciousness.
With creative computation, JCS’s artist practice grows to include projects in application development, robotics, and neural networks which act as provocative/critical statements about our info-tech and bio-tech driven world. As these methods transform creative output, the main body of works exist as physical installations: sound, light, and other traditional and emergent media physically present as objects and projections.
closed system (version 1.0) (looped single-channel video projection with sound - 14m:12s), Altar/Gift (archival print on canvas - 12"x16"), and Noctua Stations v5.0 (archival print on paper - 13"x19") - all completed in 2022 were selected for the School of Art and Design: Faculty Exhibition at The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley on view from the 7th to the 28th of October 2022. The three works were exhibited at 3 separate locations: Rusteberg Gallery in Brownsville TX, Visual Arts Building Gallery and Charles and Dorothy Clark Art Gallery in Edinburg TX.
Stills from closed system:
electric dream (version 1.5) (video with sound, 04m:33s, 2018) was selected for the Murray State University Centennial Alumni Juried Exhibition at Clara M Eagle Gallery in Murray, Kentucky. This exhibition was on view from the 8th of September to the 30th of October 2022.
documentation of electric dream, or memoryheirloomhumandesireanddestruction (version 1.5), short film, 2018
Installation view of electric dream, or memoryheirloomhumandesireanddestruction (version 1.0), digital projector with audio and video playback made to resemble an analogue slideshow | two tables | Death framed | 1080p monitor with video playback | roses arranged and hung by L-braket | fresh roses in a vase | 3D printed skull | 3D printed infinity symbol (black) | 3D printed miniature copy of Rodin's The Thinker | acrylic paint on paper | spray paint on paper | 3D printed two hypercubes (gray and magenta) | dead palm leaves weaved and tied around a 3D printed infinity symbol (gray) | mound of dead rose buds | mound of dead rose stems | mound of 3D print rafts and supports | paint on wad of paper resembling a rosebud | artist's Grandmother's "wave" vase containing dead roses | mound of dead roses | paint and fire (burnt) on vellum | two forms of spray painted plastic | painted wood circle | rose quartz dodecahedron | found small black stone | jasper cube | quartz merkabah star | amythest octahedron | citrine tetrahedron | blue gray stone from Alabama | camera sensors | cell phone and point-and-shoot camera lenses | workstation panel | workstation speaker | four work lights | two pink light bulbs | two green light bulbs | speaker soundsystem playing environmental soundtrack and poem, 2018
More installation views of electric dream (v1.0):
Installation views of an alternative arrangement of electric dream (v1.5):
Death, digital archival print, 16"x 20", 2017
Light, digital archival print and poem, 11"x 14" (print), 8.5"x 11" (poem), 2017
excerpt from Green and Gold, 1080p video displayed horizontally, 2017
promo for three new works, 2017
facebook promo for three new works, 2017
instagram promo for three new works, 2017
#inthastudio, exporting This New Sitcom 'The Missing Episode', 00m:15s, 2015
00m:36s excerpt from This New Sitcom 'The Missing Episode', 12m:45s, 2015