Jon Cohrs is a visual artist based in Brooklyn, New York. His work often uses public engagement, collaboration, and site-specific explorations to address global issues. Recently, he created OMG TV, an analog television station that went live during the digital transition when television stations turned off analog transmissions. OMG TV was used as a reference in a Supreme Court amicus brief on creativity and copyright. In 2011 he created Alviso’s Medicinal All-Salt together with University of California Berkeley water researcher Morgan Levy. The medicinal all-salt is created from effluent wastewater that is distilled down to salt along with pharmaceuticals contained within the water supply. In April 2015, he premiered his feature film Back Water about the New Jersey Meadowlands and the Anthropocene at the Vision Du Reel Film Festival in Nyon, Switzerland. Jon has taught fine arts students (on both BA and MA degree courses) at Parsons School of Design, Pratt Institute, New York University, State University of New York at Purchase, and the Finnish Academy of Fine Art. He has also received grants from New York State Council of the Arts, Media Arts Assistance Fund, Mellon Grant, Experimental Television Center, FEAST, and Future Everything, and fellowships from Eyebeam, the New York Foundation for Arts, and the Banff Centre for the Arts, in addition to numerous residencies throughout the United States and Europe.