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Jessica Findley

Country(activity based):
USA
Genre:
Visual Art, Design

Profile

From Omaha, Nebraska, via Hong Kong, and New York, artist and designer, Jessica Ling Findley, received her BA from The Evergreen State College and her Masters from the Interactive Telecommunications Program at NYU.  She received an Honorable Mention from V.I.D.A. 4.0 International, "Art and Artificial Life" and a grant from the Blackrock Arts Foundation.  Exhibitions include New Museum, NY, TheAlit, Germany, Big Love, Sweden, BAPlab, Brooklyn, School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her project, Aeolian Ride, led the Deitch Art Parade in 2007. In 2008 she won the Saatchi Gallery Your Studio Competition, exhibited in the Issue Project Room, Brooklyn and the Science Gallery in Dublin.

About works / performance

"The Aeolian Ride" is comprised of 52 suits that inflate when 52 people go for a bike ride.
"Front" Voice Acivated Inflatable Conflict Suit.
"Grow" is an installation where music was created especially for plants.
"The Monkey Show"  A paint on glass animation telling the story of my uncles kidnapping.
"Lumen" a multipart sonic and visual installation- 1 part used live wave data from the ocean to control sound and movement.

 

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Comment

My work explores ideas of play via unusual use, and altering space. Her projects, often temporal or kinetic, evoke emotive curiosity through interaction and observation.
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