"as an artist, i take a systems approach to New Media. i work + play with technosocially engaged digital art forms attempting to use these systems to uproot destructive expectations of dominant cultures. my projects are intersections of various possibilities enabled by New Media, artware, code-based approaches, instruction sets, conceptualism, Video Art, video games, game art + genre defying activities that crosswire + shortcircuit such categorical + taxonomical desires." jonCates CHI IL .US jonCates is an artist with a systems approach to New Media. as an Assistant Professor in the Film, Video and New Media department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, jonCates has been developing the New Media path of study in the Film, Video and New Media department since 2000.