Coinciding with the International Year of Light in 2015, the Espacio Fundación Telefónica presents the work of Jim Campbell, 27 works based on a combination of techniques of video art and light projected on common media playback as LEDs, LCDs and monitors or screens television. Through the manipulation of electronics and computers, the artist brings us to the world of video installations and light sculptures of great visual beauty. Areas of LEDs, pixels, video projectors, frames, electronic circuits and pixelated photographs, producing evocative and provocative images that challenge the visitor questioning your powers of perception.
The exhibition, held in collaboration with the Dundee Contemporary Arts, also includes some of his most representative works from his latest creations, such as Light Topography (Jane'sPool), where he created through LEDs lights a topographic relief on low resolution of swimmers evoking the movement of the waves and the depth of the seas or Blur, a LEDs panel showing the unedited video at a resolution of a scene from the streets of New York.
The exhibition highlights the installation Last Day in the Beginning of March, a piece of 26 bulbs that recreates the last day in the life of the brother of the artist. And Exploded View, a 3D constellation of more than 1,000 bulbs showing the pattern of movement of workers or the Home Movies 1040 series, where the artist, through a succession of frames at very low resolution home videos obtained on EBay a Led's screen whose works are examples of low resolution.
On the other hand there are a number of activities and workshops cycle on which you can find information here.
Venue.- Espacio Fundación Telefónica. Fuencarral St., 3, Madrid. Spain.
Date.- from 1st of April to 28th of June of 2015.
Jim Campbell (Chicago, 1956) graduated in Electronic Engineering and Mathematics for the Massachussetts's Institute of Technology (MIT), is a pioneering artist in the digital transformation of information in works of artistic nature that cross with contemporary art, science and technology.
With a wide career as filmmaker, he will fuse his scientific knowledge and his artistic baggage creating, since 1988, recreational facilities which he terms "custom electronics" that he designs for the unique purpose of each installation.
Nowadays he lives and is employed at San Francisco, California and his work figures in the collections of Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Whitney Museum of American Art and The Museum of Modern Art of New York, Smithsonian of Washington D.C, San Francisco Museum of Modern art, Cincinnati Art Museum and Berkely Art Museum, between other cultural institutions.
In the fall of 2010, Campbell's work, "Scattered Light" was installed in the Madison Square Park Conservancy in Manhattan making it the largest and most extensive public art piece of his to date. Hundreds of hovering tiny lights made up a large-scale, three-dimensional public installation.
