By karenmmartin on movement
While I was in California I saw an exhibtion of Jim Campbell’s work at the Beall Center for Art & Technology. My favourite pieces were his combinations of video images and low-resolution LED displays. In these, the video images are reduced to the verge of abstraction then displayed across a matrix grid made up from hundreds of LEDs. At this resolution the images appear as shadows in the board of lights yet the action is still surprising clear.
Variations on this theme included using a sheet of diffusing plexiglas set at an angle in front of the grid. This transforms the image of the figures as they move from left to right across the screen, changing them from something close to abstraction to a more representational picture.
In another extension of these works, the plexiglas is replaced with a photogravure image, backlit by the LED matrix. The darkened areas of the figures show through the image giving an eerie sense of a scene inhabited by ghosts.
The exhibition runs until 2 December.
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* Posted on: Thu, Oct 19 2006 9:06 AM
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