Home Movie 3002006-07 / LED-/ Video InstallationJim Campbell  Home Movie 300 is a work that consists of strung columns of high powered LEDs that are mounted to wires and suspended 3 inches from a wall. The LEDs are facing the wall thus creating a reflected image on the surface of the wall. However since the LED boards are between the viewer and the image one has to look through the curtain of LEDs, through the display device to see the image. In other words the display device is partially blocking the image from being seen. This work displays found footage home movies low enough in resolution so that they become more universal in references. Jim Campbell (born 1956, Chicago) received two Bachelor of Science Degrees in Mathematics and Engineering from MIT in 1978. His work has been shown internationally and throughout North America in institutions such as the Whitney Museum of Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Carpenter Center, Harvard University, The International Center for Photography, New York, and the Intercommunication Center in Tokyo. His electronic art work is included in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the University Art Museum at Berkeley. In 1992 he created one of the first permanent public interactive video artworks in the United States in Phoenix, Arizona. He has lectured on interactive media art at many Institutions throughout the world, including the Museum of Modern Art in NY. He has received many grants and awards including a Rockefeller Grant in Multimedia, three Langlois Foundation Grants, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. As an engineer he holds almost twenty patents in the field of video image processing. ยท www.jimcampbell.tv/  Photo: Jim Campbell Jim Campbell, Home Movie 300, 2006-07, LED-/ Video Installation Custom electronics, 300 LEDs, Courtesy Jim Campbell and Hosfelt Gallery San Francisco & New York |