Discover Jim Campbell. Ritmos de Luz: A Retrospective of Pioneering Light and Digital Art

This exhibition, 'Jim Campbell. Ritmos de Luz', showcases the work of pioneering light artist Jim Campbell, exploring themes of movement, low resolution, light, perception, and memory. It features 27 works employing video art and light techniques, highlighting his innovative use of technology for artistic expression.

‘Jim Campbell. Ritmos de Luz’ is the first major retrospective in Spain dedicated to Jim Campbell, a highly innovative artist renowned for his experiments with light. The exhibition delves into themes of movement, low resolution, light, perception, space, and memory, presenting 27 works that combine video art with light technologies such as LEDs, LCDs, and monitors. Campbell, an electronic engineer by training, pioneers the use of LEDs for large-scale interactive art installations. His work manipulates electronics and computing to create visually stunning video installations and light sculptures. The exhibition features pieces like 'Light Topography (Jane’s Pool),' which uses LEDs to depict the low-resolution movement of swimmers, and 'Blur,' a low-resolution LED panel showing unedited New York street scenes. Notable works include 'Last Day in the Beginning of March,' an installation of 26 bulbs recreating a significant personal memory, and 'Exploded View,' a 3D constellation of over 1,000 bulbs mapping worker displacement patterns, alongside the 'Home Movies 1040' series which uses low-resolution LED screens to display found home videos. Campbell's artistic practice often involves reducing the constituent elements of images to a minimum, pushing them to the limits of visual coherence and challenging logical order, referencing principles like Heisenberg's uncertainty principle. He manipulates space and reflects on how humans process visual information, sometimes using filters to make his low-resolution LED images more figurative. The artist suggests that 'seeing' is a brain reconstruction and that perception is context-dependent. By depriving images of contextual references, he interrupts viewers' synaptic processes, creating a spatial weightlessness that allows him to explore emotional and sensory reactions. Jim Campbell (b. 1956) holds degrees in Electronic Engineering and Mathematics from MIT. His work, which merges contemporary art, science, and technology, is featured in major collections worldwide, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and MoMA in New York. This exhibition, a collaboration with Dundee Contemporary Arts in Scotland, is accompanied by a catalogue and an app for augmented reality viewing of selected works.

The exhibition is hosted at Espacio Fundación Telefónica and information about visiting hours is provided. Specific ticketing details for the exhibition itself are not mentioned, implying it may be included with general museum admission or free entry, but this is not explicitly confirmed on the page. Visitors are directed to general venue information for opening hours: Monday-Saturday and holidays from 10:00 to 20:00, and Sundays from 11:00 to 20:00. The page also offers links to download educational materials and a press kit.