"Melding aspects of computer animation, video art, abstract painting, structuralist cinema, and architecture, Jennifer Steinkamp creates ravishing abstract and figurative projections that reside in the realm between the physical and the virtual. Technology plays a major role in her art, however it never takes precedence over the desired aesthetic effect. Her computer is the equivalent of oil paint, palette, and brushes. Inspired by the work of light-and-space artists such as James Turrell and Robert Irwin, she strives to erase the boundary between viewer and object, constructing environments that defy materiality, encouraging total immersion. These installations acknowledge the human body by creating disorienting effects, manipulating the senses, overwhelming with movement, effecting a range of responses from delight and awe to something bordering on vertigo. Steinkamp explores the nature of human sensory experience through her phenomenological installations, using light, motion, and sound to dematerialize and activate space." - JoAnne Northrup, Jennifer Steinkamp, Selections. The San Jose Museum of Art Permanent Collection. 2004
More Videos and information can be found on her website: http://www.jsteinkamp.com Current Exhibition: September 7 - October 18th, 2008 @ Lehmann Maupin, (201 Chrystie Street, New York, NY)
Above: Daisy Bell, 2008
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