{{Short description|Canadian new media, video, and performance artist}} {{Infobox artist | name = Jeremy Bailey | birth_date = {{birth year and age|1979}} | birth_place = Toronto, Ontario, Canada | field = New media art, performance art, video art | training = Syracuse University (MFA, 2006) | movement = Satirical net art, post-internet art | website = {{URL|https://www.jeremybailey.net/}} }}
'''Jeremy Bailey''' (born 1979) is a Canadian new media, video, and performance artist. Originally from Toronto, Ontario, and later based in Calgary, Alberta, Bailey is widely recognized for his satirical alter ego, the self-proclaimed "Famous New Media Artist." Since the early 2000s, his work has navigated and critiqued developments in digital communications, consumer software, and corporate technology culture.<ref name="Bozzi2024">{{cite journal |last=Bozzi |first=N. |date=2024 |title=Meta’s artistic turn: AR face filters, platform art, and the actually existing metaverse |journal=Information, Communication & Society |page=1–20. |doi=10.1080/1369118x.2024.2427116 |quote=Jeremy Bailey is a new media artist and pioneer of AR in artistic contexts. Inspired by 1970s feminist and queer video art, he started exploring the possibilities of real-time by using video scripting software for artists, which eventually led to a range of performances at new media festivals and venues where he enacts his persona, ‘famous new media artist’ Jeremy Bailey. The moniker is a tongue-in-cheek reference to the mainstreaming of Silicon Valley speak, which, a lot like artistic movements, relies on manifestos and mission statements. Bailey’s work operates structural critiques to both the art system and the tech industry, engaging with technologies that range from browser plug-ins to NFTs. In terms of AR face filters, Bailey has experimented with both Snap and Spark AR software in projects of different kinds, including collaborations with artists from younger generations.}}</ref><ref name="ZKM"/><ref name="FACT"/>
==Biography== === Early life and education === Bailey was born in Toronto, Ontario, in 1979.<ref name="Transmediale"/> He pursued formal training in media arts, culminating in a Master of Fine Arts from Syracuse University in 2006.<ref name="Imago Mundi"/> Alongside his artistic practice, Bailey has worked concurrently within the technology sector as a user experience (UX) designer and creative director, serving in leadership roles at Canadian technology firms such as FreshBooks.<ref name="Never Gallery Ready"/>
=== Career === Operating in character as the "Famous New Media Artist," Bailey produces performative videos, software systems, and interactive installations that mimic the aesthetics and rhetoric of Silicon Valley product launches and tech evangelism.<ref name="FAD"/> The humorous surface of Bailey's work often acts as a vehicle for structural critique. Baily has extended his corporate parody to critiquing speculative software markets, mobile augmented reality platforms, and the commercialization of the metaverse.<ref name="LaCollection"/> His work frequently integrates custom software and scripts to overlay real-time, digital animations onto his body.<ref name="LaCollection"/> Marisa Olson characterized his practice as "often confidently self-deprecating in offering hilarious parodies of new media vocabularies."<ref name="FAD"/> Morgan Quaintance stated that "since the early noughties Bailey has ploughed a compelling, and often hilarious, road through the various developments of digital communications technologies."<ref name="Official About"/>
== Recognition == Bailey's work has been exhibited globally. His solo and group exhibitions include presentations at: * Whitechapel Gallery in London<ref name="MUTEK"/> * ZKM Center for Art and Media<ref name="MUTEK"/> * LI-MA in Amsterdam * MuseumsQuartier in Vienna<ref name="MUTEK"/> * Panke.Gallery in Berlin<ref name="MUTEK"/>
Institutional commissions and site-specific projects have been developed for: * New Museum in New York City<ref name="MUTEK"/> * Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) Chicago<ref name="MUTEK"/> * Foundation for Art and Creative Technology (FACT) in Liverpool, United Kingdom<ref name="MUTEK"/>
== References == {{Reflist|refs= <ref name="Official About">{{cite web |title=About – Jeremy Bailey |url=https://www.jeremybailey.net/pages/about-us |website=Jeremy Bailey Official Website |access-date=May 31, 2026}}</ref>
<ref name="Imago Mundi">{{cite web |title=Jeremy Bailey - Patent Drawing #14 |url=https://imagomundicollection.org/artworks/jeremy-bailey-patent-drawing-14/ |website=Imago Mundi Collection |access-date=May 31, 2026 |quote=Jeremy Bailey (born in 1979, Toronto ON) received his MFA in 2006 from Syracuse University (Syracuse, USA). Now Toronto- based, he is a self-proclaimed Famous New Media Artist whose work explores custom software in a performative context. Since the early 2000s “Bailey has ploughed a compelling, and often hilarious, road through the various developments of digital communications technologies. Ostensibly a satire on, and parody of, the practices and language of ‘new media’, the jocose surface of Bailey’s work hides an incisive exploration of the critical intersection between video, computing, performance, and the body” (Morgan Quaintance, Rhizome). Recent projects include performances, exhibitions and commissions for Rhizome’s Seven on Seven (“Rhizome”, New York, USA), Transmediale – Festival for Art and Digital Culture (Berlin, Germany), the Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam, Netherlands), Whitechapel Gallery (London, UK), Tate Liverpool (UK) and the New Museum of Contemporary Art (New York, USA). Bailey is represented by Pari Nadimi Gallery in Toronto (ON) and is also adjunct Faculty in the Mobile Augmented Reality Lab at New York University (USA).}}</ref>
<ref name="Transmediale">{{cite web |title=Artist Profile: Jeremy Bailey |url=https://archive.transmediale.de/content/jeremy-bailey |website=Transmediale Archive |access-date=May 31, 2026}}</ref>
<ref name="LaCollection">{{cite web |title=Jeremy Bailey Biography |url=https://www.lacollection.io/contemporary/artists/jeremy_bailey |website=LaCollection |access-date=May 31, 2026}}</ref>
<ref name="ZKM">{{cite web |title=Jeremy Bailey |url=https://zkm.de/en/persons/jeremy-bailey |website=ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe |access-date=May 31, 2026}}</ref>
<ref name="MUTEK">{{cite web |title=Jeremy Bailey Speaker Profile |url=https://mutek.org/en/speakers/jeremy-bailey |website=MUTEK |access-date=May 31, 2026}}</ref>
<ref name="FAD">{{cite interview |last=Bailey |first=Jeremy |title=Famous New Media Artist Jeremy Bailey Answers FADs Questions |interviewer=FAD Magazine staff |url=https://fadmagazine.com/2013/02/09/famous-new-media-artist-jeremy-bailey-answers-fads-questions/ |website=FAD Magazine |date=February 9, 2013 |access-date=May 31, 2026}}</ref>
<ref name="Never Gallery Ready">{{cite podcast |title=New Media and Digital Economies, with Jeremy Bailey |url=https://www.nevergalleryready.com/wemakemedia/jeremybailey |website=Never Gallery Ready |publisher=We Make Media |date=July 31, 2020 |access-date=May 31, 2026}}</ref>
<ref name="FACT">{{cite web |title=Artist: Jeremy Bailey |url=https://www.fact.co.uk/artist/jeremy-bailey |website=FACT Liverpool |access-date=May 31, 2026}}</ref> }}
== External links == * {{Official website|https://www.jeremybailey.net/}}
Category:1979 births Category:Living people Category:Canadian contemporary artists Category:Syracuse University alumni
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