Jared Brown

Jared Brown is an interdisciplinary artist born in Chicago. In past work, Brown broadcasted audio and text based work through the radio (CENTRAL AIR RADIO, 88.5 FM), in live DJ sets, and on social media. Brown considers themselves a data thief, understanding this role from John Akomfrah’s description of the data thief as a figure that does not belong to the past or present. As a data thief, Brown makes archeological digs for fragments of Black American subculture, history and technology. Jared repurposes these fragments in audio, performance, text, and video to investigate the relationship between history and digital, immaterial space. 

They have presented work at IIT, the School of Art at the University of Manitoba, Graham Foundation, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Baltimore Museum of Art, Southside Community Art Center, the Poetry Foundation, smartbar, Roman Susan, Steppenwolf Theatre and the Hyde Park Art Center. They have published writing in Sixty Inches From Center, Cult Classic Magazine, the Chicago Reader, Press Press and True Laurels.

Brown holds a BFA in video from the Maryland Institute College of Art and moved back to Chicago in 2016 in order to make and share work that directly relates to their personal history.