Jesse England

Postmaster General Louis DeJoy admits he doesn't know how much it costs to mail a postcard

The United States Postal Service allows you to preview your mail before it is delivered. I took advantage of this feature to create animations from mailed postcards, like a flipbook scanned through the lens of a federal institution. 

It began as an art project with general criticism of government surveillance; these same images of mail are offered by the USPS upon request to almost any law enforcement agency, without warrant. However, in mid August, it quickly shifted towards something much more direct: Criticism of the newly installed, useless Postmaster General, and sincere encouragement to USPS workers to disobey and obfuscate his directives however they may.

Link to longer project description

Hand-stabilized video of Marta’s Song by Deep Forest

Exhibition, residency and publicity of my works for 2015:

Universal Record (link to Wired interview)

Re-creating a half remembered video game from memory, and finding it while in residency at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (link to Motherboard interviews)

This post from emoticons-translated.tumblr.com becomes a “Top Emoji Post” for Tumblr’s 2015 year in review!

The software I tried to locate by re-drawing what I could remember from middle school has been located. I recalled some things correctly and incorrectly. (re-creation in B&W, actual is in color.) And the whole thing was way more violent than I remembered.