Marija Bozinovska Jones (MBJ/ MBJ Wetware*) explores links between social, computational and organic architectures. Working across audiovisual formats, installation, ephemeral mediums and in live context, her works revolve around technological amplification and unpack cryptic ways of forging subjectivity. MBJ often maps biochemical onto algorithmic components, probing notions of selfhood from subatomic level to networked presence on planetary scale and beyond.
Grounded in a belief that a worldmaking is an intrinsically collective process, MBJ regularly collaborates with researchers, programmers, holistic practitioners and other artists.
Recent activities include:
- Otherness, Iklectik Labs, London
- AGM 2021 at Somerset House, London
- Boundless Bodyminds Equrna / Sonica, Ljubljana
- Beginningless Mind (rivers, rhythms, rituals) for Abandon Normal Devices, Liverpool/ online
- Artificial Intelligence – Limitless Potential vs Liminal Transcendence, CTM Berlin
- ‘Self Optimization’, Myco TV, Mostyn, Llandudno
- ‘Self Optimization’ at Higher Resolution / Hyphen Labs at Tate Exchange/ Tate Modern, London
- Technologically Fabricated Intimacy, a research based project with Dr. Alessandro Gandini at the Department of Digital Humanities at King’s College, London
- Affective Infrastructures Study Circle at Transmediale, Berlin
- Creamcake’s symposium Interrupted = “Cyfem and Queer>”, Berlin
- podcast for Furtherfield/ Serpentine Marathon, London/ online
- Moneylab: Tolkenizing Culture with the Blockchain for the Institute of Network Cultures, London
- Self Optimization/ Hyper Functional Ultra Healthy at Somerset House, London
- OFcourse at M50, Shanghai
Past exhibitions:
- Faux Intimacies at Centrum, Berlin DE (2021)
- Crypto_manifold at Chronus Art Center, Shanghai CN (2020)
- Swamp Protocol at Arebyte and Gossamer Fog, London UK (2019)
- Paying Attention at Akademie Graz AT (2019)
- D’EST online / Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow RU (2019)
- Playbour: Work, Pleasure, Survival at Furtherfield, London UK (2018)
- New Gradients of Measure at Banner Repeater, London, UK (2018)
- Nocturnal City at Somerset House, London, UK (2017)
- Art Night/ The Garden of Virtual Utopias, London UK (2017)
- Relics from the De-Crypt at Gossamer Fog, London UK (2017)
- We’re Having a Great Time at Rockelmann&, Berlin DE, (2016)
- techSent at Enclave Projects, London UK (2016)
- In the Future We Will All Be Modern at Arcadia Missa, London UK (2014)
- The Future of the Past. A political rave curated by F.Y.R.O.M. at Fischer und Fischer, Berlin DE (2013)
- Фolkoteka 2.0 MKC, Skopje, MK (2013)
- Folkoteka 2.0 KNIPSU Bergen, NO (2013)
Festival performances:
- CTM, Berlin DE (2020)
- Inversia Murmansk RU (2020)
- AbandonNormalDevices x SHS x University of Salford, Liverpool (2020)
- Wysing Polyphonic, Wysing Art Centre (2019)
- Transmediale at Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin DE (2019)
- (INTER-) Somerset House, London UK (2019)
- DE:SONANZ, Skopje MK (2019)
- Sonic Acts Academy Amsterdam NL (2018)
- Rewire/ Sense of Self, the Hague NL (2018)
- MUTEK, Montreal CA (2018)
- MUTEK, Buenos Aires AR (2018)
- Vorspiel Berlin DE (2017)
- RadioLabs award, CTM Berghain, Berlin DE (2016)
- MIRA Festival/ Scope Sessions, Berlin DE (2016)
- DE:SONANZ, Skopje MK (2015)
Other past practice has encompassed co-producing audioplay for Deutschlandradio Kultur and CTM Festival 2016, tactical media DreamHolidaysUnlimited.com 2015, online and Art Night 2017, a collaboration with the north macedonian activist choir and NGO Freedom Square 2013 and participatory experience at Green Ray/ Enclave Projects in London UK 2016.
MBJ graduated MA in Computing at Goldsmiths and is current studio resident at Somerset House Studios in London.
Contact info [at] marijabjones [dot] com
Instagram@marijabjones
Twitter@BozinovskaJones
“Fascia 181006190131” with MBJ Wetware* and J.G. Biberkopf (Gediminas Zygus) at Haus der Kulturen Der Welt, Berlin
*MBJ Wetware is a distributed proxy with various expressions: from intelligent interface to gamified brand strategy to be worn and inhabited