10 Facts About Jon Ippolito

Jon Ippolito is an American artist, educator, new media scholar, and former curator at the Solomon R Guggenheim Museum.

Jon Ippolito's works explore digitally induced collaboration and networking, a theme that is prominent in his later scholarship.

In 2002 Jon Ippolito joined the faculty of the University of Maine's New Media Department, where he co-founded Still Water with Joline Blais.

Jon Ippolito's writing on the cultural and aesthetic implications of new media has appeared in The Washington Post, Art Journal, and numerous art magazines, including in a regular "Cross Talk" column for ArtByte magazine.

Jon Ippolito has an abiding interest in the legacy for today's artists of conceptual practices of the 1960s and 1970s.

Jon Ippolito is particularly interested in the parallel between digital art, Minimalist and Conceptual art, a parallel that led him to propose a new paradigm for preserving art called the Variable Media Network.

In 2015, Jon Ippolito was the inaugural recipient of the Thoma Foundation Digital Arts Writing Award for an established arts writer who has made significant contributions to the intersection of art and technology.

Jon Ippolito is a Professor of New Media at the University of Maine, where he teaches classes on programming, online culture, variable media, and viral media and directs the Digital Curation graduate program.

The variable media approach that Rinehart and Jon Ippolito propose asks to what extent works to be preserved might be medium-independent, translatable into new mediums when their original formats are obsolete.

Jon Ippolito has given over 100 presentations at numerous academic and culture venues including the National Academies, NASA, and the American Assembly.