Philip Mallory Jones’s Electronic Consciousness in Afrodiasporic Video

Abstract Philip Mallory Jones’s “videomation” was an early video image processing technique of the 1970s that superimposed multiple forms of image-making to convey the aesthetics of Afrodiasporic rhythms. While videomation’s application in Jones’s collaboration with Gunilla Mallory Jones in Beyond the Mountains, More Mountains (1975) expressed a disillusionment that tested the limits of Afrodiasporic connections between the United States and Haiti, he later refined this technique through splicing and weaving of visual polyrhythms in his collaboration with the Burkinabe media pioneer Moustapha Thiombiano, Wassa (1989), as an expression of double consciousness.