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Showing posts with label Pari Nadimi. Show all posts
Wednesday, October 12, 2011

Two of the most exciting and important artists working with digital media are currently the focus of a two-person exhibition at Toronto's Pari Nadimi Gallery. Pioneering media artists Jim Campbell and David Rokeby share an ongoing fascination with movement, perception, time and memory. For both artists the technology is always firmly at the service of a poetic exploration of human experience.

Campbell works against the prevailing tendency towards higher-definition images, presenting moving images at very low resolutions that take human perception towards its limits. The fluctuations of light in the image nonetheless carry the unmistakable and evocative signature of human movement.

Rokeby is fascinated by what he calls our temporal bandwidth: the mix of past and future we bring to our experience of the present. He picks apart our experience and perception of time, space and movement, creating works that stretch and collapse time or transform our experience of our own movements through space.