JZ Champion is a visual performance artist and the leading steward of the Crystalume™, a handmade light instrument for performing Vusic™ a form of visual music composed live with optics, color, rhythm, and intention.
From the age of two, Jeane was immersed in a world of light and sound. Her father, Gerry Zekowski, a renowned lighting engineer and producer of the visionary 1970s television show Sensatiation, introduced her to the magic of light art. It was through this world that Jeane first encountered JC Allison, inventor of the Crystalume. Even as a young child, she remembers being captivated by JC’s lightshows , feeling as if she was traveling across the universe, lost in the rhythm of the light. That connection would shape her path.
Jeane earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Southwest Texas State University (now Texas State University), specializing in figure drawing and performing on her Crystalume as part of her final thesis. With JC’s guidance and the help of Gordon Lingly at the university’s technology department, she built her own Crystalume an instrument she would play at the Bass Concert Hall, where she and JC performed side by side, their beams crossing in a moment that confirmed her calling as a Vusician™.
Today, JZ Champion continues to innovate. She expands the Crystalume into a family of Vinstruments™ (visual instruments) and pioneers Vusic as a new art form. Through performances, teaching, and new designs, she invites audiences to experience light not just as something seen, but as something felt , a living language of color, rhythm, and clarity.
