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Janet Cardiff
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Shifting between fact and fiction, between the experience of the real and our projections, fantasies, and desires, Janet Cardiff's audio-video and multimedia installations explore the complexity and vertiginous nature of subjectivity in a highly technological world. They are interactive pieces where visitors are asked to touch, listen, smell, and often move through an environment shaped both by our perceptions and by the artist's alteration of them. With references to film noir, science fiction, cyber-punk and various other filmic genres, her works, often created in collaboration with husband George Bures Miller, address the constant need to negotiate between presence and loss of self, memory and experience, sensation and imagination.
Janet Cardiff is well-known for her early-days “sound walks” where participants were given a Walkman or similar device to listen to as they walked about. Stories were
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Artist Spotlight: Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller
Canadian artist duo, and life partners, Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller have worked jointly since the early 1990s. The Cardiff Miller studio in British, Columbia Canada is a nucleus for numerous internationally acclaimed multimedia artworks. With an impressive CV, the pair have exhibited works worldwide, representing Canada at the 49th Venice Biennale in 2001 as well as dOCUMENTA 13 in 2012. Encountering a Cardiff and Bures Miller work, wherever it is presented in the world, makes for an entrancing occasion.
Utilizing unique materials, the artists orchestrate truly diverse artworks that range in scale and form, from immersive spatial installations to performative sculptures and choreographed real-time nature walks. The two describe their works as “hybrids between theatre, music, and the visual arts.” An artwork made by Cardiff and Bures Miller expounds on two unconditional elements––the perceptual impact of sound and the power of engaged audience and artwork interaction.
Canadian scholar, Christine Ross, explains
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Janet Cardiff
Canadian artist (born 1957)
Janet Cardiff | |
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Cardiff in Berlin, Germany in March 2009. | |
| Born | (1957-03-15) March 15, 1957 (age 67) Brussels, Ontario, Canada |
| Education | Queen's University, University of Alberta |
| Known for | sound artist, installation artist |
| Notable work | "Forty Part Motet", 2001 Paradise Institute, 2001, with George Bures Miller |
| Movement | Conceptual Art |
| Spouse | George Bures Miller |
| Awards | National Gallery of Canada Millennium Prize; La Biennale di Venezia Special Award; the Benesse Prize; the Wilhelm Lehmbruck Prize |
| Years active | 1995–present |
Janet Cardiff (born March 15, 1957) is a Canadian artist who works chiefly with sound and sound installations, often in collaboration with her husband and partner George Bures Miller. Cardiff first gained international recognition in the art world for her audio walks in 1995. She lives and works in British Columbia, Canada.
Early life and education
Janet Cardiff was born in 1957 in Brussels, Ontario, Canada,[1] and grew up on
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