SHORT: 
Jon Satrom tickles machines until they barf.

MEDIUM:
Jon Satrom is a Chicago-based artist, educator, and organizer who delights in digital detritus. He playfully problematizes media systems and interfaces—scrambling tech’s polished surfaces with error, creative misuse, and humor. Through performance, software art, and collaborations with humans and machines, Satrom embraces glitches, kludges, and exhaustion aesthetics to reveal the cracks and contradictions in our digital infrastructures.

LONG:
Jon Satrom is a Chicago-based artist, educator, and organizer who delights in digital detritus. He playfully problematizes media systems, interfaces, and conventions—scrambling the sanitized polish of tech with raw error, creative misuse, and humor. Through real-time performance, software art, and collaborations with both humans and machines, Satrom leverages glitches, kludges, crops, instability, and what’s been called “exhaustion aesthetics” to expose the cracks, contradictions, and biases embedded in our technological infrastructures.

Through his boutique digital studio, studiothread, Satrom leads creative projects that raise funds and visibility for arts programming and cultural initiatives. As cofounder of netizen.org—a collective of media artists and educators—he advocates for a more critical, playful, and creative digital world. In his role as Assistant Senior Instructional Professor and Associate Director of the Media Arts and Design Program at the University of Chicago, Satrom shares his expertise and curiosity with the next generation of experimental artists and designers.

	

Yeeeoeoeooooooo... I was recently interviewed by Regine Debatty of the rad Technology, Arts, and Culture blog "We Make Money Not Art": Conversation with a Bug Maker and Tamer