I make intermedia work confounding the easy connective-ness of formal concerns with the labored tangle of human thoughts and interaction, and the capricious natures of synchronicity, déjà vu, and serendipitous phenomena; which give one hope. Expressed through a fluid practice—in my mind unrestricted by media or medial hegemony—ranging across discrete objects, video, performance, installation, and web-art at the nexus of conventional, and computational media.

While the formalities of the work may seem palatable and pedestrian the focus is quiet, hyperbolic ambition, adding layer upon layer creating a larger meaning / story / drawing / experience body: a Fantabiography—finding balance between lived life, and imagined or fantasy life.

True story: my parents’ Christmas cards sometime before I was born (1966-1972). Imagine white cards embossed with a silver dove and text reading, "Peace on Earth" on the cover. You open the card to reveal, "Fuck War!"

At the core of my work is a relationship of images / meaning in context setting routines of creative revelation. Perhaps, covering the generalities of what art is / does in describing what I do instead of fixedly planting my flag—in: cultural questioning; sexy exploits; rabbits / bunnies; formal structure; flight / airplanes; gas masks; fire; wood; paint; and dangerously simple interactive code-art—is not to deny my love of specific themes / ideas / materials / ways and means, but to allow for a capriciousness, a flexibility. To have too firm a stance in any arena makes one all too easy a target for knock-down; however, this comes at the expense of impassioned dogma, and firm location, save this: homogeny of thought is boring, and dangerous (see: the Events of 9-11, http://www.911digitalarchive.org).

Jim Jeffers short bio

Prof. Jim Jeffers was born in late winter in Denver, CO. He lived there for 15 years with his loving parents, Dr. Jim (1925-1992) and Lou (1932-1999), a psychologist turned holistic heath care practitioner and interior designer turned healthware sales person respectively. Jim attended the University of California - Santa Cruz, where he studied Physics and graduated with a B.A. in Art with emphasis in printmaking and drawing. Upon completion of his undergraduate course work, he attended New York University and graduated with a Master of Arts degree in Studio Art with emphasis in sculpture and printmaking. Jim spent the better part of the next two years in Encinitas, CA (north of San Diego) making art and cooking for his mother. He earned his M.F.A. from Rutgers University in 2000, and has taught at numerous institutions including: Rutgers University; Drew University; Seton Hall University; and NYU, just to name a few. He has exhibited work nationally and internationally. His last solo exhibition, Metus Nihil (fear nothing) opened in late May 2007, at the Jean B. King Gallery at The College of Southern Idaho. Jeffers is currently an Assistant Professor of Art and Design in the Art Department at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. Jim lives in Lowell, MA, and works where he can.