Jim Campbell - Home Movies [Grid] 2006 Motorized Object

custom electronics, metal, wire, white LEDs, 51 x 60 x 4 inches
The work of Jim Campbell manifests a poetics of the digital, upsetting common assumptions about the relationship between technology and humanity, "information" and thought. This San Francisco--based artist employs conventionally chilly media to investigate processes of perception and recollection in ways that are deeply, warmly humane.

Campbell's mural-scale installation in Gallery 2 is an iteration in the series Home Movies, which the artist has been developing since 2006. An array of tiny LED lights is strung from ceiling to floor along the gallery's rear wall, projecting imagery from found amateur films—family vacations, passing landscapes—processed nearly to the point of illegibility. In its physical form, the piece resembles a beaded curtain of light, a dangling row of filmstrips, a pixel grid writ large. Seen through this grid, straining the limits of resolution, the moving images on the wall create a shifting sequence of suggestions. Simultaneously revealing and obscuring the private moments of anonymous others, these abstracted yet archetypal forms become liquid reflections on the pool of memory.

Jim Campbell was born in Chicago in 1956 and lives in San Francisco.
He received degrees in Mathematics and Engineering from MIT in 1978.
He transitioned from filmmaking to interactive video installations in the
mid 1980s. His custom electronic sculptures and installations have made
him a leading figure in the use of computer technology as an art form.

More info:
http://www.jimcampbell.tv/

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• art
• memory
• perception
• meaning
• creation
• algorithms
• display
• motion
• picture
• grid
• LED

[MrSecondSkin]

pretty cool. Its like looking at a low res animated gif file

[ElectronicSculptures]

Great piece of work. It looks like you spent a lot of time designing the hardware. Very original. I think it's defnitely a marketable item.