VJ Epileptic / Jinx ’75

VJ/ AV artist Jonathan Womack, performing under the alias Vj Epileptic and his visual studio Jinx ’75, began his career building prop design and visual sets for a local band. When that project collapsed, he began to play shows under the name Epileptic and picking up shows around town playing in a variety of visual styles, from slow geometric progressions  to full-out psychedelic craziness jury-rigged from 50′s sex Ed. films, Mexican wrestling movies,  B-Grade horror movies and his beloved Resolume  software. A member of the I Heart Shiva crew, he plays every other Saturday at the Baltic Room on Seattle’s Capitol Hill, live-mixing Bollywood movies to the groups live drums and DJed Bhangra-hip-hop mash-ups. He is a member of the St. Louis music and visual collective “932″, and the in-house video director for their record label Hillbilly Bombshell. He has toured with the Can-Can Cabaret, designing and operating high definition visual sets, and performed with the Can Can Castaways at Bagley Wright Theater as part of Bumbershoot 2010.

As a member of the Seattle video artist collective Videa, he was jointly awarded a city arts grant in 2010 for an arts residency space. The Videa group is now headquartered in Seattle’s International District, where they hope to raise awareness for live generative visuals and performance- based video art, bringing VJ culture to a higher level of respect in the Seattle music and arts community.

He has played Bumbershoot twice,  Experience Music Project, Seattle International Cabaret Festival,  Photosynthesis Festival, Folklife Festival, Seattle Founders Day Festival, The Triple Door, Showbox/ Showbox Sodo, Neumos, Baltic Room, The King-Kat Theatre, and recently created an interactive video installation for Roq La Rue Gallery. He will be playing the Made Like a Tree Showcase at Sole Repair on Thursday, the Forward Thinking Organisms Showcase on Saturday, and Bubblin’ Showcase on Sunday.