Jim Campbell: Exploded View (Commuters), 2011, Dimensions: 72 x 46 x 38 inches, Custom electronics, 1152 LEDs, wire, steel. Photo credits Sarah Christianson
September 22 – December 22, 2011
Opening reception Thursday, September 22, 5-8 pm
Pari Nadimi Gallery
254 Niagara Street
Toronto, ON, M6J 2L8
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Pari Nadimi Gallery is pleased to announce a major exhibition of new works by two internationally acclaimed artists Jim Campbell and David Rokeby.
Pioneering media artists Jim Campbell and David Rokeby share an ongoing fascination with movement, perception, time and memory. 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. For both artists the technology is always firmly at the service of a poetic exploration of human experience.
Campbell’s pieces in the exhibition will include Exploded View (Commuters), Montgomery Street Pause and Fundamental Interval Commuters #2. Exploded View (Commuters) is the precursor to a major installation “Exploded View” that will be exhibited in the atrium of SFMoMA from November 5, 2011 to September 25, 2012. These two works explode the moving image into three dimensions, illuminating the space with a flickering grid of light that is part sculpture, part cinematic screen.
Rokeby’s pieces in the exhibition include 2 “sound paintings” in which the physical space of an invisible painting becomes an interactive soundscape that can be probed with the fingers. He will also show Plot Against Time #4 (Atlantic Baroque) which traces the flight patterns of gannets off the coast of Newfoundland and a work that explores the movements of skaters on the ice rink at Nathan Philips Square (Toronto).