The Collected Works
Of Jonathan Land

 


Biography

I've worn out many hats and much welcome over the years. I grew up in New York City (really, in Manhattan itself) and could frequently be found at ungodly hours on school nights of my formative high school period at either WBAI-FM as an Arts Department producer, composer, and timid on-air personality or at CBGBs as your garden variety delinquent teen.

I graduated from Hampshire College in 1997, majoring in the highly unprofitable fields of mathematics and music. I incorporated both into an overly ambitious 4.5 hour composition on the net which has sadly been burned. I've spent the intervening time as a web developer, writer, stick figure artist (not a joke, see http://incomplete.net/ for details), and on-again off-again member of the experimental musical group Negativland, which specializes in making art that goofs on the media whenever possible. I've made appearances on an E.P. with one-hit wonders (in America, at least) Chumbawamba, and on a compilation of reworked pieces from Fiddler on the Roof for Knitting Factory Works records.

I currently reside in the lovely Hudson Valley region of New York with two guinea pigs (Spoof and Shawn) and a rabbit (Nutley). Their cuteness helps offset my overwhelming negativity. I currently receive about 100 pieces of spam a day and would be the wealthiest man in Nigeria if only I could manage to take my business transactions seriously.

Spoof
Photo by Jill Shuler
Nutley (left) and Shawn
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