Jem Noble’s practice encompasses digital image-making, music, sculpture, performance and text, and is concerned with questions of framing, indeterminacy and co-production. Drawing on aesthetic approaches to processes, systems and gestures in art, Noble’s work addresses the emergent nature of form and its implications across physical, experiential and political domains. Sound and image media feature frequently in this work, which is often concerned with their materiality – how its determinacy is both produced and challenged by the practices of which they are a part and how this can serve to question distinctions of human and non-human agency.

Jem Noble holds a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) in Philosophy from Swansea University in Wales. He has produced solo projects in Canada, New Zealand and Britain, collaborated with a wide range of artists, film-makers and cultural producers. Projects include a performance-lecture for the European Arts Research Network at dOCUMENTA (13), 2012; image, text and audio work in conjunction with Bruce Nauman’s Days at the ICA, London, 2012; re-edits of 1988 feature films Ghosts of the Civil Dead and They Live, screened at Arnolfini, Bristol, 2011; a lending-library of self-improvement materials on commercially obsolete media found in Hobart second-hand shops for permanent installation in the Tasmanian School of Art library as part of Iteration: Again, 2011; facilitating 100-piece vocal-noise choirs with improvisational vocalist Phil Minton by disseminating bespoke video training manuals through community networks in Bristol and Glasgow, 2009; and painstakingly recording music from the internet in real time over three months to DJ at Manifesta 7 in Trentino in collaboration with Swedish anti-copyright activists Piratbyrån, 2008. He has also undertaken several commissioned collaborations with Turner Prize 2012 winner Elizabeth Price, producing sound and music for her large-scale video installations. Noble is founding member of the Blackout Arts expanded-cinema collective (2002-2010) and was co-director of Venn Festival of new and exploratory music and sound between 2004 and 2008.