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/