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Jack Toolin is an interdisciplinary artist whose art explores the socioeconomic underpinnings of daily life. He is currently working on several photographic projects; however his practice has spanned a variety of creative approaches, including installation art, performance art and traditional media.

While the photographic language of current projects can be related to historical modes such as New Topographics, photo typologies, and Constructivist collage, the conceptual bases of the projects are rooted in ideas stemming from areas such as experimental geography, gentrificaion and psychoeconomics.

While much of his career has been conducted independently, he was a founding member of the new media collective C5 (1997-2007), whose pioneering artworks addressed a range of computation-related concepts, from data visualization to locative media.

His work has been included in exhibitions at venues across the country and internationally. Highlights include the 2002 Whitney Biennial (as a member of C5), the San José Museum of Art, Ars Electronica (C5), the Chelsea Art Museum (solo exhibition), Foxy Productions (NYC), and more.

He has been invited to speak at universities and conferences in both the US and Europe, and has chaired panels at the Society for Photographic Education and the College Art Association.

Currently Toolin is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at New York University and Pace University. His teaching includes a range of courses related to technological art, in both lecture and studio modes, and at both the undergraduate and graduate levels.

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Photography
Profit and Loss thumbnail

Profit and Loss 

Continental Drift

Continental Drift

White Collar

White Collar 

Third Avenue Corridor

Third Avenue Corridor

Thumbnail: Empty Retail

Empty Retail

Thumbnail: Fringe Economy: Tip Jars

Fringe Economy: Tip Jars

Thumbnail: New Yorkers

New Yorkers

Thumbnail: Six Requests

Six Requests

Intermedia
The C5 Landscape Initiative

The C5  Landscape Initiative 

From Here to There: Commuting through Perception

From Here to There: Commuting through Perception

My Space for Your Life

My Space for Your Life

South by Southwest

South by Southwest

Graphic: Village Idiot

Village Idiot

Manhattan Cache

Manhattan Cache

The C5 Quest for Success

The C5 Quest for Success

Performance
Call to Prayer

Call to Prayer

You Don't See that You Don't See

You Don't See that You Don't See (C5)

Strangers in the Night

Strangers in the Night

Annual Report

Annual Report

Prospector

Prospector

Beacon of Economic Inequality

Beacon of Economic Inequality

Big Shoes Little Feet

Big Shoes Little Feet