Vertical Roll

Cast as an “electronic erotic seductress” the multiple costumes and roles performed by Jonas critically examine the ever-changing but consistently unequal roles of women. The camera gazes at Jonas implicating the viewer in the work and further with her body. Her intentional de-synchronization of the monitor's receiving and transmitting frequencies results in the on-screen image's repeated vertical descent. Creating a sense of fragmentation the vertical roll relentlessly pounds at the images of the artist as she moves through a series of performed identities. Characterized a "disjunctive self portrait" by the Electronic Arts Intermix the image content of the work is strongly mediated by the mirror-like function of the camera scrutinized by the lens and subjected to violence by the vertical roll.