Jim Campbell

Instagram: @JimCampbellStudio

Website: https://www.jimcampbell.tv/

Bio: Jim Campbell, trained in Mathematics and Engineering at MIT, worked in Silicon Valley and earned nearly 20 patents before turning to art. In 1988 he began creating interactive video works using custom electronics before digital video was viable, later shifting to perceptual, low-resolution imagery around 2000. His pioneering fusion of technology and visual art is in major museum collections including MoMA, the Whitney, SF MoMA, LACMA, the Smithsonian, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Campbell’s work explores the borderlines of recognition, transforming abstract data into moving, emotionally resonant forms. Since 1992 he has created more than a dozen public artworks. He has received many grants and awards including a Rockefeller Grant in Multimedia, three Langlois Foundation Grants, and a Guggenheim Fellowship.

Statement: These 3 works are from a series, in which each work is based upon a digitally recorded memory of an event. Some of these electronic records represent a personal memory and others represent a collective memory. These electronic memories are manipulated and then used to transform an associated object mounted on the wall. Avoiding the usual notions of what a memory is, none of the original memories is an image or a sound. These works explore the characteristic of hiddenness common to both human and computer memory. Memories are hidden and to be represented have to be transformed. Some of the memories may be fictional, not real, but generated. The boxes are labelled with the memory contained within. In current terminology, I guess you could call them data visualizations or auralizations.