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| The Wreck of the Dumaru, 2004 |
Note: All links will take you to an index page on Jennifer Steinkamp's website. Find the image and click on it. This will take you to an animation.
I have wanted to write about Jennifer Steinkamp for a while
but was perplexed on how to present this dynamic digital artist in a blog
format. My introduction to her work came
in 2007 at an exhibition at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art. I was so blown away by the show I made my
husband see it, which is something I rarely do.
Wikipedia states that, “Jennifer Steinkamp is
an American installation artist who works with video and new media in order to
explore ideas about architectural space, motion, and perception.”
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| Moth, In collaboration with The Fabric Workshop and Museum-2012 |
Steinkamp can overwhelm long gallery walls--sometimes the entire gallery room--with
wondrous, hypnotic movement of images. When accompanied
by sound or music, the stunning works may inspire recall of one's place in the world: small. Some of the installations use three computers.
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| Eye Catching. 2003 |
For this blog, I can only show a still
with a link to a video. Some of the videos might give an indication of the scale of these installations.
When I shared her work with my art students, I used a multimedia projector and projected the animations on the wall of my classroom. Doing that, I was able to give my students a sense of Steinkamp's scale.
When I shared her work with my art students, I used a multimedia projector and projected the animations on the wall of my classroom. Doing that, I was able to give my students a sense of Steinkamp's scale.
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| Cultured, 2011-2012 |
Today's article is co-written by Terri & Michael Gardner.
Here, here. I went to see the show three times at the Kemper, bringing whomever I could convince to go. Her work is hypnotic and amazing.
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