JON WINET::::

The Electoral College is a hybrid new-media-art/journalism project exploring the 2008 US presidential election and democratic practice in America. The project will run from November 2007 to the January 2009 presidential inauguration. The active project elements include a website at www.america-the-globe.net/tec and www.america-the-globe.net/tec/content/thepictureshow.html (the latter dubbed “The Picture Show”); a daily widget in the weekly updated Widget Gallery at www.america-the-globe.net/tec/content/thewidgetgallery.html; and videos on YouTube.

Winet’s work revolves around politics, art, language, and image in the media landscape of the information age. The Electoral College is also part of the Unconvention, an arts and activism project organized by local artists and curators in Minneapolis-St. Paul in conjunction with the 2008 Republican National Convention. Winet teaches at the University of Iowa, where he directs the Intermedia Area in the School of Art and Art History.