Hold on to your hat, cowboy. This digital artist isn’t afraid of riding out into the desert looking for the infinite wisdom of glitch. — Virginia Valenzuela, 79Au, Mint Gold Dust
In the realm where pixels dance in discord and the old boundaries of the screen are challenged, jonCates emerges as a digital desperado. His canvas? The vast, untamed landscapes of the American Western genre. But rather than riding through these digital plains on horseback, he ventures into this familiar yet foreign territory with a different mission. His quest? To subvert, distort, and ultimately redefine the visual and cultural narratives that have long defined the Western aesthetic.
With each piece, jonCates confronts us with a question as old as the genre itself yet as fresh as the latest software update: What stories do we choose to tell in the technicolor glow of our screens? His art, a symphony of errors, challenges the tales of triumph, conquest, and binary simplicity. Through the deliberate disruption of digital images — those iconic scenes of dusty trails and dueling cowboys — he invites a glitch into our collective memory.
In the hands of jonCates, glitch digital art becomes not just a technique, but a prism. Through it, we view the American Western anew, seeing past its surface to the complexity and contradiction lying beneath…
