Jennifer Steinkamp: Video and Media Artist April 5, 2007

Melding aspects of computer animation, digital media, experimental film, architecture and design, Los Angles-based artist 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. Steinkamp is one of the most important video and new media artists of her generation, and she brings a heightened focus on human sensory experience through her phenomenological installations, using light, motion and sound to dematerialize and activate space, setting her oeuvre apart from that of her peers.