LIBRAIRIE

A longstanding virtuoso of new media, Jim Campbell has been transforming the visual lexicon of digital data into art for 20 years. This retrospective of his career is buttressed with commentary by some of the genre's leading critics, such as John G. Hanhardt of the Smithsonian, Richard Schiff from the University of Texas at Austin and Richard Grusin, co-author of Remediation: Understanding New Media.

First monograph on the American media artist’s innovative techniques

Jim Campbell (*1956 in Chicago) is universally acknowledged as a masterful new media artist, adept at manipulating the base materials of electronics and computers into visual haiku of the information age. What this volume reveals, comprehensively spanning twenty years of his career, is that the real guts of his art is not in soldered connections but in a sublime reduction of vision into rhythm. What is barely deciphered by the eyes is strangely comprehensible to the mind, as if reconstructing familiar memories from the future.  Campbell is one of the pioneering artists of the twenty-first century. His innovative techniques transform the pervasive mediaverse surrounding us—and our relation to it.