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Tesseract: 3D Interactive Video Installation Documentation jennenorton 111 views The CAVE is a 3D video environment in which the viewer wears stereoscopic glasses, and their movement is tracked by sensors, triangulating reflective surfaces on the glasse...
Les Soeurs Fox du 21e ciècle / 21st Century Fox Sisters jennenorton 353 views Video documentation of the installation shown at Le Labo, January 2010, by Jenn E Norton, curated by Ron Loranger.
Very Good Advice jennenorton 477 views Very Good Advice 2009 "Locating herself slyly in that world that is 'through' the Looking Glass, Toronto-based artist Jenn E Norton inhabits the digital equivalent of W...
Chimera jennenorton 2,685 views Chimera employs the fantastical and grotesque to chart the rise of an imagined contemporary icon, or celebrity, as a creature to be observed through microscopic scrutiny. ...
Les Poupées Russes (Split Screen/Documentation) jennenorton 3,100 views Les Poupées Russes is a two channel video installation that uses a mise en abyme structure. On opposing sides of the gallery space are video projections of a film set. On...
DRIVING IN: Documentation jennenorton 140 views An installation made for the "World's Smallest Art Gallery" in Elora in 2007

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Jul 2, 2006

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I read this quote today by Thomas Hirschhorn and I appreciated what he had to say. So I thought it would be nice to post it.

"To me as an artist the problem is how to take position, how to take position and to give form to this position: A form which goes behind cultural, economical, religious conventions. I think in art still the question of the form brings the most important question. To create a form who tries to touch truth: that is my problem as an artist.

Sometimes I feel ridiculous or stupid facing my own work but I think I have to stand out this ridiculousness.

To me doing art work is using art as a tool as a tool to confront with the world, as a tool to confront with the reality I am living in and as a tool to confront with the time I am living in. I am living in a cultured complex turbulent world. In doing my art work I want to reach, to struggle, to fight in this turbulent and complex world.

Today we are living I think in a time of opinion, of fact, of information and communication. The problem is which form I can do who assist this dictatorship of opinion and the dictatorship of facts.

I have to be courageous to touch the non positive, to not avoid to touch the question of the non positive.

To me doing art work is not only glamorous, it is not only fashionable, it is not only cool. I am not a political artist working without cynicism, without self satisfying self criticism, without naivety and without good conscience.

I do not want to work for the art market, I do not want to work against the art market: this is losing energy. I do want to struggle to fight with and in the art market. I always think 'energy yes, quality no.'"

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OCAD, TTVO, University of Guelph

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