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Bill Viola
Memoria, 2000
DVD, DVD player, projector, and silk
Dimensions variable
Museum purchase with funds contributed by Ann Marie and Averill Mix and from the Lipman Family Foundation
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Gail Wight
Center of Gravity, 2008
15 digital pigment prints on kozo washi paper, Plexiglas, light, electronics, motion sensor, sound
96 x 5 x 5 inches (individual works)
Installation dimensions variable
San Jose Museum of Art
Gift of the Lipman Family Foundation and Ron Casentini
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Andrea Ackerman
Rose Breathing, 2003
3D Computer animation, stereo sound, projector. 34-second continuous loop
Dimensions variable
Museum purchase with funds contributed by the Museum’s Collection Committee
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Jim Campbell
Photograph of My Mother, 1996
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Portrait of my Father, 1994-95
Custom electronics, glass, plastic, and photography
San Jose Museum of Art
Museum purchase with funds contributed by the Museum’s Collection Committee
The patterns of nature find reflection in the functions of human life—the motion of ocean waves echoes the measured inhalation and exhalation of breath; flower petals reach for the sun, unfurling and then collapsing, more slowly but similarly to the way a heart contracts and expands. These rhythms and movements connect the diversity of earth’s life forms, highlight their fragility, and can serve literally as a method for monitoring human and environmental health. The new media artists in this exhibition use technology to replicate these vital signs, but also to explore the inner source of life, those elements unseen but often sensed.
Artists include
Andrea Ackerman, Jim Campbell, Bill Viola, and Gail Wight.
Sponsors
- Doris and Alan Burgess and Peter Lipman