Jo-Anne Green

Green attended the University of the Witwatersrand where she graduated with a BFA Honors in Printmaking, majoring in Art History and Painting, in 1981.{{Cite web |title=networked_performance |url=https://www.turbulence.org/blog/about.html |access-date=2024-02-26 |website=www.turbulence.org}} In 1983, she emigrated to the United States where she attended Southeastern Massachusetts University (now UMASS Dartmouth) and Lesley University, graduating with an MFA in Visual Arts (1989) and an MA in Arts Administration (2003). In 1999, at the University of New Mexico's High Performance Computing Center, Green founded the artist-in-residence program and managed the Art Technology Center until June 2001, when she returned to Boston to complete her MS in Art Administration at Lesley University in 2003. She also taught part-time at Emerson College.

Green lived in Boston for thirty-two years and in Albuquerque, New Mexico (UNM) from 1996-2001. She worked as a Graphic Designer at the University of New Mexico’s High Performance Computing Center where she founded the artist-in-residence program{{Cite web |title=Jo-Anne Green - Monoskop |url=https://monoskop.org/Jo-Anne_Green |access-date=2024-02-26 |website=monoskop.org}} that led to the formation of the Art Technology Center (ATC):Mellas-Ramirez, Laurie. UNM Arts Extends Scope with New Research Centers, Public Affairs, University of New Mexico, August 22, 2000. it was there, in 2001, that she met her life partner Helen L. Thorington. Green was Program Coordinator for both the ATC and the Arts of the Americas Institute at UNM from 1999-2001. She returned to Boston in 2001, and joined New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc. in 2002: she designed websites, brochures, logos and postcards; and engaged in grant writing and fundraising, among other responsibilities.{{Cite web |title=People {{!}} Turbulence |url=https://turbulence.the-next.org/people/ |access-date=2025-03-08 |language=en-US}}

Green had her first art exhibition, with Kim Berman, in Johannesburg (1982). She made prints, paintings, artist’s books and installations, many of them grappling with Apartheid, violence, and chronic pain which she suffered for more than thirty years. In 1989, her MFA Thesis exhibition was accepted by the Cambridge Multicultural Arts, Center; she participated in numerous group exhibitions in Boston and New York. Her one-of-a-kind artist book, “Waiting and Remembering,” was acquired by the Jack Ginsberg Centre for Book Arts at Wits Art Museum, Johannesburg, South Africa where it was shown at the inaugural exhibition of the collection.

Green co-founded Cultural Resistance in 1985, organizing South African art exhibitions and video screenings, and designing and publishing a monthly newsletter, UNCENSORED, with her collaborators Kim Berman and Rachel Weisz. Cultural Resistance was a project of Fund for a Free South Africa (FreeSA) where she volunteered from 1984-1990, culminating in Nelson Mandela’s visit to Boston.

Green was co-director of New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc. (NRPA) from 2002 to 2016 where she founded Upgrade! Boston and curated exhibitions at Art Interactive,McQuaid, Cate. Most illuminating (in Capturing the overlooked), Boston Globe, Boston, Massachusetts, August 20, 2008 funded by the LEF Foundation) and the Huret & Spectre Gallery (funded by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts). NRPA was founded in 1981 to foster the development of new and experimental work for radio and sound arts. It commissioned and distributed 300 works for New American Radio (newamericanradio.org). While at NRPA, Jo-Anne Green also wrote essays that focused on art processes, including Interactivity and Agency in Real-Time Systems.{{Cite web |last=Green |first=Jo-Anne |date=October 30, 2010 |title=Interactivity and Agency in Real Time Systems |url=https://d1wqtxts1xzle7.cloudfront.net/70855035/ebook-libre.pdf?1633083993=&response-content-disposition=inline%3B+filename%3DIminencias_Performaticas_Em_Ambientes_In.pdf&Expires=1711390414&Signature=DzQIoz004UI5fJTMSvmMaxMX2bly1zOwoArvqTPHPykstobIoE90PUH46NvbOp~HiogjZxOoez0qnEe5NyQmCbZGHjJhpFjdN4ZAEtYcZvO3A80qawEjP7q7mAXCFycQIHUn1S64GT-4~-kwU2Tc7oPaBfikBuPpitSIQnTSWh2JZMMhb7~hGVOUJE9SPlNCPrphCUzRWdDs0PUKIOZuqGyWAOHbbQFDh5~WIlVvXaqmltQUSZYmEuf5mllLJr1ECpkRzngRZmZOjAh9VSXyDROsYPmfY5poDhcfxKJEe9uHTbbfs9dEsD1OAhxdb-DqG91ndVzzeLGwlCxCb8V56g__&Key-Pair-Id=APKAJLOHF5GGSLRBV4ZA#page=84 |publisher=SoftBorders - 4º Congresso Internacional de Artes e Novas Mídias |place=Belem, Para, Brazil}}

In early 1996, NRPA extended its mandate to net art.{{Cite web |last=Regine |date=2007-03-05 |title=Interview with Jo-Anne Green |url=https://we-make-money-not-art.com/turbulence_is_1/ |access-date=2024-02-26 |website=We Make Money Not Art |language=en-US}} To achieve this, Helen Thorington founded Turbulence.org and Jo-Anne Green joined her in 2002.{{Cite journal |last1=Miranda |first1=Maria |last2=Neumark |first2=Norie |date=July 2007 |title=On the Internet: Turbulence and 1001 Nights of Networked Performance |url=https://www.computer.org/csdl/magazine/mu/2007/03/u3001/13rRUxASuPv |journal=IEEE MultiMedia |volume=14 |issue=3 |pages=4–5 |doi=10.1109/MMUL.2007.57 |via=Computer.org|url-access=subscription }} Turbulence commissioned, exhibited, and archived 356 works that creatively explored the Internet as a site of production and transmission;{{Cite web |title=Celebrating Women in E-Lit |url=http://dtc-wsuv.org/wp/ell/2020/02/29/celebrating-women-in-e-lit/ |access-date=2024-02-26 |website=Electronic Literature Lab |language=en-US}} and supported experimentation with distributed real-time multilocation performance events. The site was produced in New York and Boston and got about 150,000 to 250,000 visitors per month as of 2006.{{Cite journal |last=Arias-Mission |first=Alain |title=Show: John Giorno's "Millions of Stars Coming into My Heart Welcome Home" |url=https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/124/article/484629/summary |journal=American Book Review |date=2006 |volume=26 |issue=4 |pages=19 |doi=10.1353/abr.2006.0154 |via=Project Muse|url-access=subscription }} It was also home to two blogs: Networked_Performance{{Cite journal |last=Thorington |first=Helen |date=2006 |title=The networked_performance blog |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/action/showCitFormats?doi=10.1080%2F07494460600647675 |journal=Contemporary Music Review |volume=25 |issue=1–2 |pages=193–197 |doi=10.1080/07494460600647675|url-access=subscription }}{{Cite web |last=Regine |date=2007-03-05 |title=Interview with Jo-Anne Green |url=https://we-make-money-not-art.com/turbulence_is_1/ |access-date=2024-03-25 |website=We Make Money Not Art |language=en-US}} and Networked_Music_Review. Other major projects include Networked: a (networked_book) about (networked_art); Mixed Realities (2007);{{Cite book |url=https://www.worldcat.org/title/477141702 |title=Performing technology: user content and the new digital media: insights from the two thousand + nine symposium |date=2009 |publisher=Cambridge Scholars Pub |isbn=978-1-4438-1445-4 |editor-last=Schroeder |editor-first=Franziska |location=Newcastle upon Tyne |oclc=477141702}}{{Cite web |title=Mixed Realities |url=https://the-next.eliterature.org/ |access-date=2024-03-25 |website=The NEXT |language=en-us}} Pulsed Pull Installation{{Cite web |title=Pulse Pool Installation |url=https://the-next.eliterature.org/ |access-date=2024-03-25 |website=The NEXT |language=en-us}} Upgrade! Boston;{{Cite web |title=Upgrade! Boston |url=https://the-next.eliterature.org/ |access-date=2024-03-25 |website=The NEXT |language=en-us}} and New England Initiative II.{{Cite web |title=New England Initiative II |url=https://the-next.eliterature.org/ |access-date=2024-03-25 |website=The NEXT |language=en-us}} This site defined network performance as "any work that is enabled by computer networks ... which engage users in a performative experience."{{Cite journal |last1=Riel |first1=Michael |last2=Thorington |first2=Helen |date=2022 |title=Networked Performance: How Does Art Affect Technology and Vice Versa? |url=https://history.siggraph.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/2005-02_Riel_Networked-Performance.pdf |journal=SIGGRAPH}}{{Cite book |title=Cross-Media communications: an Introduction to the art of creating integrated media experiences |date=2010 |publisher=ETC Press |isbn=978-0-557-28565-5 |editor-last=Davidson |editor-first=Drew |location=Pittsburgh, Pa. |page=8}}{{Cite book |title=Cross-Media communications: an Introduction to the art of creating integrated media experiences |date=2010 |publisher=ETC Press |isbn=978-0-557-28565-5 |editor-last=Davidson |editor-first=Drew |location=Pittsburgh, Pa. |page=15}}{{Cite book |last=Papagiannouli |first=Christina |url=https://www.worldcat.org/title/936199757 |title=Political cyberformance: the Etheatre Project |date=2016 |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan |isbn=978-1-137-57703-0 |series=Palgrave pivot |location=Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : New York, NY |oclc=936199757}}

She has also organized several exhibitions at Pace Digital Gallery(PDG), Manhattan, New York as well as Green co-organized multiple symposia at PDG as well as the Floating Points speaker series at Emerson College, Boston Massachusetts.

Green used digital technology and her background as a painter and photographer for her art. Green has exhibited her artwork in Johannesburg, Boston, and New York, mounting her first solo exhibition, "Well, as a result..." at Different Angle Gallery in 1990.Silver. Joanne, "Green’s art digs into her African roots." Boston Herald, Boston, Massachusetts, March 30, 1990{{Cite news |last=Finch |first=Amy |date=March 16, 1990 |title=8 Days a Week |url=http://hdl.handle.net/2047/D20206366 |access-date=March 8, 2025 |work=Boston After Dark, The Boston Phoenix |location=Boston |page=2 |volume=xix |issue=11|hdl=2047/D20206366 }} The exhibition examined the slow transition from oppression to freedom, and was informed by her experiences in her native South Africa. The opening of the exhibition celebrated Nelson Mandela and the African National Congress with a performance of South African music.{{citation needed|date=March 2024}}

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• [https://sympoietic.net/jo/ Personal Website], including [http://sympoietic.net/jo/cv.html CV]
• [http://turbulence.org Turbulence.org]

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