Campbell Jim

È nato a Chicago nel 1956 e vive a San Francisco. Nel 1978 si è laureato in matematica e ingegneria al MIT. I suoi film sono stati mostrati a livello internazionale e nel Nord America all’interno di istituzioni come il Whitney Museum of Art, il San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, il Carpenter Center all’università di Harvard, il Power Plant di Toronto, l’International Center for Photography di New York e il NTT InterCommunication Center di Tokyo. La sua opera d’arte digitale è esposta nelle collezioni del Whitney Museum of American Art, al San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, all’University Art Museum di Berkeley e al San Jose Museum of Art. Nel 1992 ha creato una delle prime opere d’arte interattive permanenti e pubbliche a Phoenix in Arizona. Ha dato molte conferenze sull’arte interattiva dei media in molte istituzioni tra cui il Museum of Modern Art di New York. Di recente ha ricevuto la borsa Multimedia della fondazione Rockefeller, una borsa della fondazione Langlois e il premio Eureka Felowship. Come ingegnere detiene una dozzina di brevetti nell’ambito del trattamento delle immagini video.

Jim Campbell was born in Chicago in 1956 and lives in San Francisco. He received 2 Bachelor of Science Degrees in Mathematics and Engineering from MIT in 1978. His work has been shown internationally and throughout North America in institutions such as the Whitney Museum of Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Carpenter Center, Harvard University; The Power Plant, Toronto; The International Center for Photography, New York, and the NTT InterCommunication Center in Tokyo. His electronic art work is included in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the University Art Museum at Berkeley, and the San Jose Museum of Art. In 1992 he created one of the first permanent public interactive video artworks in the U.S. in Phoenix, Arizona. He has lectured on interactive media art at many Institutions, including the Museum of Modern Art in NY. He has recently received a Rockefeller Grant in Multimedia, a Langlois Foundation Grant, and a Eureka Felowship Award. As an engineer he holds more than a dozen patents in the field of video image processing.