Artist: Jennifer Steinkamp
Title: X-Ray Eyes
Running Time: 5:40
Date: 1999 and re-edited 2001
Dimensions: 29 x 22 feet, single channel, variable.
Photo credit: Robert Barker, courtesy of Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art and ACME., Los Angeles.
Description: The screen becomes a spinning tunnel of colorful smoke. The soundtrack varies in speed, at times, it seems as though the image changes along with it. An incredible optical illusion occurs when the image stops, through the optical effect known as retinal fatigue, our eyes want the image to keep the image moving.
Exhibition History:
- Monday Night Lecture Series, Fall 99, UCLA Department of Design | Media Arts, Los Angeles, CA. 10/25/1999
- Videodrome, New Museum of Contemporary Art, NY, NY. 10/1 - 11/7, 1999, curator: Dan Cameron.
- One Wall, Orange County Museum of Art, 2001, 3/13 - 4/8, 2001, curated by Christopher Miles
- Videacy, Side Street Live, Los Angeles, CA, 7/20-21/2001, curated by Andrew Bucksbarg, Sara Roberts, S.M. Sofian.
- Blur and Sharpen, University of Southern California, Taper Hall, Los Angeles, CA, 2002.
- Visiting Artist Lecture Series, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, California, 9/04/2002.
- 2002-2003 Lamar Dodd School of Art Visiting Artist and Scholar Series, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, 9/10/02.
- Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, curated by Andrea Inselmann, 1/30-2/12, 2004.