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Description:
Building memories is an interactive video art project which links
together the lobby, gymnasium, senior activity space and game room
to create a live video collage with images specific to the building
and grounds. The projections utilize images taken of the building
during its construction, as well as images of the grounds taken by
young people on a yearly basis. A software program then collages
these images of the building with images taken by fixed cameras in
the building. The program randomly assembles images taken over the
course of the previous year, giving priority to the most recently
recorded images. It has an “artificial intelligence” which allows
spaces that are more active to display more recently recorded
imagery. The projected images do not connect the spaces for the use
of communication or observation; rather they reveal an overall
ambiance of the various activities within the building by creating a
view to an imaginary space.
Funding:
The project was funded through City of Tempe Capital Improvement
Project Percent for Art funds.
Artist
biography:
Jim Campbell was born in Chicago
and now lives in San Francisco. He received two Bachelor of Science
degrees in Mathematics and Engineering. He has shown internationally
and throughout North America in institutions such as the San
Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Carpenter Center at Harvard
University, the Power Plan in Toronto and the International Center
for Photography in New York.
His work is included in the collections of Don Fisher of the Gap
Corporation, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the
University Art Museum at Berkeley. Campbell has received many awards
for his work including a Guggenheim Fellowship award for 2003-2004.
Artist statement:
Attempting to create systems that respond and progress in
recognizably non-random, but at the same time unpredictable ways, I
have tried to create works that have destinies of their own. Having
always been fascinated with the philosophical analogies of certain
scientific disciplines, my work has been very influenced by science,
in particular some of the ideas relating to chaos and quantum
mechanics. Using technological tools and scientific models as
metaphors for memory and illusion, my work seeks to interpret,
represent and mirror psychological states and processes, and their
breakdown. Time and memory, individual and collective, electronic
and real are the elements of my work.
The Tempe public art program is managed by City
of Tempe Cultural Services staff
with input from the Tempe Municipal Arts Commission, a 15-member,
mayor-appointed advisory board.
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