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Jim Campbell, Wave Modulation and Variation
Jim Campbell
Born 1956, Chicago, Illinois
Lives in San Francisco
Wave Modulation and Variation, Edition 1 of 3, 2003
Custom electronics, LEDs and treated Plexiglas
Gift of the Lipman Family Foundation
2005.15.01
Wave Modulation is part of Jim Campbell’s “Ambiguous Icons” series, which explores the “edge condition” between legibility and abstraction. At what point do the pulsing lights stop representing a wave and become pure abstraction, and vise-versa? The image gradually changes its speed over a 20-minute period, going from real time to a still image, layering the element of time on the visual experience. As a result, at any given moment the image is more-or-less legible as a crashing wave; our perception shifts between the transience of real time and the eternal nature of “still time.”
Jim Campbell, Wave Modulation and Variation
Jim Campbell
Born 1956, Chicago, Illinois
Lives in San Francisco
Wave Modulation and Variation, Edition 1 of 3, 2003
Custom electronics, LEDs and treated Plexiglas
Gift of the Lipman Family Foundation
2005.15.01
Wave Modulation is part of Jim Campbell’s “Ambiguous Icons” series, which explores the “edge condition” between legibility and abstraction. At what point do the pulsing lights stop representing a wave and become pure abstraction, and vise-versa? The image gradually changes its speed over a 20-minute period, going from real time to a still image, layering the element of time on the visual experience. As a result, at any given moment the image is more-or-less legible as a crashing wave; our perception shifts between the transience of real time and the eternal nature of “still time.”