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Science-inspired electronic art comes to UCI Beall Center
 
EVENT:

UC Irvine’s Beall Center for Art and Technology presents “Quantizing Effects: The Liminal Art of Jim Campbell,” an exhibition that explores the relationship among perception, information, time, memory and knowledge through electronic and new media artwork. Campbell will display selections from his “Ambiguous Icons” and “Motion and Rest” series, which use LED lights on various-sized grids to create images and animation. Campbell also will show works from his “Illuminated Averages” series, which features images created by averaging the frames of a moving sequence. In one piece, nearly two hours worth of frames from the movie “Psycho” are collapsed into a single image.

DATE: Thursday, September 21, 2006
TIME: Press briefing: 10 a.m.-noon, Thursday, Sept. 21. Opening reception: 6:30-9 p.m. Sept. 21. Exhibition runs Sept. 22-Dec. 2
LOCATION: Beall Center for Art and Technology, UCI’s Claire Trevor School of the Arts
 
BACKGROUND:

Jim Campbell uses algorithms and other mathematical elements to create art that intentionally pushes the boundary of sensory perception. His work is influenced by science, in particular ideas relating to chaos and quantum mechanics. Campbell, who holds bachelor’s degrees in mathematics and electrical engineering, was born in Chicago. He now lives and works in San Francisco.

Campbell’s art has been displayed internationally in venues such as the Nagoya City Art Museum in Nagoya, Japan; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard University; The Power Plant in Toronto; and the Whitney Museum of American Art and the International Center for Photography in New York.

This exhibition launches the Beall Center’s “Foundations of New Media” series, which will introduce audiences to artists who have made a profound impact on the medium. “Quantizing Effects: The Liminal Art of Jim Campbell” is organized by SITE Santa Fe in collaboration with the MATRIX Program of the University of California, Berkeley Art Museum. A fully illustrated catalogue with an essay by independent curator Steve Dietz will accompany the Beall Center exhibition.

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Event Information Contact

Admission is free and open to the public. Beall Center hours are noon-5 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday, and noon-8 p.m. Thursday through Saturday. For more information, call 949-824-4339 or visit beallcenter.uci.edu.

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Jennifer Fitzenberger
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jfitzen@uci.edu

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