Dear Everyone,

Today we will meet one of the masters of electronic art.  Jim Campbell.

I’m sure we’ve all come across his work at some time or another especially during LED screen research, but this guy does some great experimentation with things that can not be seen but rather understood within moving images. Look through his site, its a wealth of inspiration.

<http://jimcampbell.tv/>

His ‘ambiguous icon’ series is awesome. Particularly ‘a fire a freeway and a walk’ (See attached images and video)

Also his ‘Portrait Of A Portrait Of Harry Nyquist’.  The fact that his works are totally self contained, with video data stored locally – IN the work is very interesting.  It isn’t a constantly changing interactive electronic art work, but rather more like a painting that takes you through a journey and then repeats itself – the ambiguity of the imagery often allowing you to discover new elements to it on every repeat.  

More images / videos:

A Fire, A Freeway, and a Walk – Movie

White Circle Movie

http://flickr.com/photos/marcwathieu/sets/72157601236072223/

http://uk.youtube.com/results?search_query=jim+campbell&search=Search

Happy Friday!