janet cardiff
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JANET CARDIFF
PROFILE
• Born: 15 March 1957
• Canadian
• Installation and sound artist
• Earned BFA from Queens University
• Earned MVA from the University of Alberta
• Husband and partner, George Bures Miller
• Work in Berlin
FIRST VIDEO WALK
• In Real Time (1999)
• The library of the Carnegie Museum of Art
• Watch the screen and follow along with what we see and hear
AUDIO AND VIDEO WALKS
• Gained international recognition in 1995
• Become "participants" in her stories
• Themes: memories, displacement and desire
• Janet Likes to make sound and reality disconnected
• Tricking the viewer into not knowing what sounds are real
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOkQE7m31Pw
THE 49TH VENICE BIENNALE
• "The Paradise Institute" (2001), a 16-seat movie theatre
• Won La Biennale di Venezia Special Award
• Won the Benesse prize
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hs_fbfOYBkQ
FORTY PART MOTET
• 40 speakers in 8 groups
• Each individual person in the choir has their own voice on a speaker
• Allows viewers to interact with the choir without physical interaction
• Part of the permanent collection of the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncWFLzVrwU4
FOREST (FOR A THOUSAND YEARS...)|
• Enter a clearing in the forest, sit down on a wooden stump, and simply listen
• Incorporates the actual forest into an audio composition emitted from more than thirty speakers
• Sometimes there is a near synchronicity of natural and mediated sounds, and it's tough to discern what is live and what is recorded
EXPERIMENT IN F# MINOR
• Situated in the art gallery of ontario
• Multiple shapes and sizes of speaker placed on a table
• Viewers enter the room and their shadows cause the sound and instrumental tracks to fade up and overlap
• Multiple viewers or different positions of viewers create different harmonies
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http://vimeo.com/78562847
REFLECTION
• Janet likes to create distortion within her pieces
• through the use of video walks that viewers can follow which overlap the views of the participant
• Overlapping sounds in forest with actualities of the forest to create confusion
• Like to experiment with musical pieces which involve viewer interaction
• Highly manipulative pieces to create personalised viewing and listening for each individual
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REFERENCES
• http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/en/article/janet-cardiff/
• http://www.cardiffmiller.com/artworks/inst/forest.html
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janet_Cardiff
• http://canadianart.ca/features/2013/04/04/cardiff-miller-lost-in-the-memory-place/
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