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Image: Jessica Miller, Installation shot of Polarity Convergence, 2008, Courtesy of the Artist |
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From
August 1 - October 18, 2008, Polarity Convergence, a video installation
by artist Jessica Miller will be installed in the gallery's front windows
at 560 South First Street. Polarity Convergence is part of the ICA's
"Night Moves" installation series, an innovative program that
gives the ICA a nighttime presence and animates the downtown cultural
landscape by showcasing after-dark programming in the gallery's windows.
Polarity Convergence presents a faux scientific control panel
of buzzing monitors and flickering screens. Utilizing low-tech filming
tricks that involve mirrors, aluminum foil and the time-lapse feature
on a camera, Miller treats her work as performed scientific "experiments."
Though visually intriguing, the work also looks clumsily scientific,
certainly out-dated by our contemporary standards of what science should
look like. Miller is interested in the ways that science is used a mediator
between humans and nature and investigates the blurriness within these
perceived boundaries and definitions.
Jessica Miller is an emerging artist and recently received her MFA at
California College of the Arts where she received the Toby Devan Lewis
Award. Her work has exhibited in San Francisco at many galleries including
Intersection for the Arts, Southern Exposure, The Shooting Gallery and
the San Francisco Art Commission Gallery.
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