Creative Practice
- Jonathan Fineberg with Yoko Ono at their collaborative presentation in Dallas, 2008
- Imagining America film free download for classroom use, Chicago Humanities Festival website, with teachers’ guides created by the Terra Foundation.
- This is my untitled kinetic sculpture of 1966, welded in a makeshift studio in Harvard Square during college. It won the jury award in the Chicago exhibition “Sculpture ’66.
- News release from the United States Postal Service which commissioned me to curate a pane of stamps on American Abstract Expressionism
- Dvd cover for Imagining America: Icons of Twentieth Century American Art
- Photo of Jonathan Fineberg with Elizabeth Murray during the filming of Imagining America in 2004
- Short video clips from the PBS film Imagining America(1)
- Short video clips from the PBS film Imagining America(2)
- Short video: Computer Science 498, Arts 391-591, 2005 University of Illinois class with Roy Campbell, Jonathan Fineberg, Kevin Hamilton, presentation by students to Chancellor Richard Herman. The cross disciplinary course focused on the Palace of Projects by Ilya and Emilia Kabakov attempted to illuminate the values hidden in computer languages and the ways in which they influence the programs generated with them.
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I began making sculpture the summer before high school and continued through college. But gradually I have shifted my creative energies to writing and to films such as the two hour documentary Imagining America: Icons of Twentieth-Century American Art which I created with my friend John Carlin for PBS in 2005.