1. Eternal Recurrence
Artist: Jim Campbell
Content:
“The first time I went to Hong Kong about 12 years ago I had thought about what it might be like to program the lights on one of the tall buildings. I was already making work with LED lights and was fascinated with thinking about what kinds of imagery might work at that scale without overwhelming the audience. A decade later the opportunity has come to me and in a way the ICC building is the best building for me to explore in Hong Kong because of its relatively isolated location. The challenge has been trying to come up with imagery that works with the shape of the façades where each image is 8 times taller than it is wide. An odd shape for a “screen“. The final metaphor that I’m working with is to treat the 3 screens as parallel pathways where each path is without a beginning or an end, where each façade represents a window onto a much longer journey. It was clear in looking at different forms of human movement for this work that the smoothness of swimmers in water worked well with the inherently gravity defying up down motion forced by the shape of the building.”
- Jim Campbell
Exhibition Period: 10th September - 8th October 2014
Time: 7pm – 7:40pm / 8:25pm – 8:55pm / 9:10pm – 10:00pm
Venue: Façade of International Commerce Centre
2. Scattered Light
Artist: Jim Campbell
Content:
Scattered Light is an urban installation which has already toured around the world to great acclaim from both the public and art critics. A spectacular setting of 2000 light bulbs is hung in a purposely unordered arrangement, and light pulses through them in a seemingly random manner. Yet as we move around the work, we discover something coherent emerging from its pointillist play of light and dark. A moving human image that is distributed in the three-dimensional space takes shape, and we see how, like we ourselves, shadows of people move about in its scattered light.
Exhibition Period: 11th September – 1st October 2014
Time: 6pm – 11pm
Venue: Edinburgh Place, Central
* Exhibiton will be suspended under severe weather conditions (Typhoon No.3 or above, Black rainstorm signal).
3. Light Matter – The Jim Campbell Experience 1990 - 2014
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I Have Never Read the Bible, 1995
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Illuminated Average #1 Hitchcock’s Psycho, 2000
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Digital Watch, 1991
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Portrait of Rebecca with Power Line Fluctuations, 1992
Artist: Jim Campbell
Content:
"Jim Campbell, the American artist based in San Francisco, has over the past 25 years, become one of the most significant and singular personalities in the field of media art. His subtle and often playful use of technologies to research figurative emergences at the limits of perception, succeeds in reaching a deep and emotional ulterior of the brain. Over several decades the immutability of his work has advanced a very personal aesthetic, making his messages timeless, and taking the intimate or collective experience of his work beyond the digital realm and closer to the universal.
With more than 30 works spanning nearly 25 years, this exhibition provides a extensive overview of Jim Campbell’s work, making visible the threads that connect together his artistic achievements during an exceptionally prolific and coherent career."
- Jeffrey Shaw and Maurice Benayoun, Curators
“In my earlier work starting in the late 1980s my focus was on interactivity and the works themselves were often in the structure of a psychological mirror where the viewer’s response to a work became part of the work itself, as in a feedback system. In the late 1990s I started exploring different "ways of perceiving" and since then most of my work has been on a progression towards simpler and simpler representations while using more and more expressionistic methods. I believe that the trajectory of technological media in our culture towards higher resolution and more dimensions (HD and 3D for example) does not always reveal or express more. Another way of saying it is that all of the excess “information” that is given to us and that our minds have to analyze can mask some of the more subtle perceptual sensory processes. It has been scientifically shown in many different ways that we see and process a lot more of our surroundings than we are consciously aware of. It is these more primitive perceptual pathways that I am interested in walking.”
- Jim Campbell
Exhibition Period: 12th September - 12th October 2014
Time: 11am – 7pm (Mon-Sat) / 12 noon – 5:30pm (Sun)
Venue: M9001, Run Run Shaw Creative Media Centre, City University of Hong Kong
