Career
His projects emphasize participation, mischief, surprise, wonder, generosity, transgression, free culture, and anti-consumerism, and they are staged in public spaces and online as street art, urban interventions, and playful online services and hoaxes, frequently for non-consenting audiences. Eppink serves as Associate Curator of Digital Media at Museum of the Moving Image in New York City and teaches a class at New York University. His work at the museum revolves around participation in a variety of fields, including video games, interactive art, remix, animated GIFs, and online communities.
Pixelator In 2007, Jason Eppink created a series of boxes from foam core and diffusion gel that he placed over video billboards at the entrances to New York City subway stations, turning advertisements into abstract geometric art
Eppink published a video and diagrams to encourage others to continue and improve on the project Astoria Scum River Bridge In late 2009, frustrated with a sidewalk perpetually covered by residue from a leaking drainage pipe, Jason Eppink and frequent collaborator Posterchild constructed a footbridge from recycled wood and installed it at the site of the leak.
The bridge and the press it attracted embarrassed authorities into fixing the decades-old problem. Kickbackstarter In 2011, to poke fun at the increasing popularity of crowdfunding, Jason Eppink created a parody Kickstarter campaign to raise money so he could fund his friends’ Kickstarter campaigns.
We Tripped El Hadji Diouf The 35 selected GIFs were displayed in a 50-foot-wide projection in the lobby of Museum of the Moving Image.
In 2015, the project appeared for the first time in the United Kingdom at the National Museum of Football, as part of the exhibition Out of Play - Technology & Football. Cut Up In 2013, Jason Eppink curated an exhibition of short form video remixes that primarily use popular media as source material. The show examined genres and techniques that emerged online over the last ten years along with their historical precedents, proposing that remix is an increasingly common way of participating in shared cultural conversations.
Exhibition sections included supercuts, recut trailers, and vidding.
The Reaction GIF: Moving Image as Gesture Thirty-seven GIFs and their translations, provided by Redditors, were selected for the exhibition, which examined the increasingly popular use of the animated GIF as a form of non-verbal communication.