Event

Polarity ConvergencePost an Event »

San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art

August 1 - October 18, 2008

Info

560 South First Street San Jose, CA 95113
Google Map »
Polarity Convergence
After-dark programming in the ICA's front windows. 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.