Jessica Thompson
Jessica Thompson new media artist whose practice encompasses sound, performance, and mobile technologies. Her projects enable audience members to create user-defined spaces and situations within urban environments. Her projects have been shown in exhibitions and festivals such as New Territories, (ARCO 2005, Madrid), Glowlab Open Lab, (Cambridge, MA) MACO, (Mexico City), dp003, (Dundee, Scotland), ISEA 2006, (San Jose, CA), the 2006 Confux Festival, (New York), and most recently at Kunsthallen Brænderigården (Denmark) and InterAccess Artist Run Centre (Toronto). Her project, SOUNDBIKE, was curated into Art Projects at Art Basel Miami Beach by Canadian curator, Natalie Kovacs, in December 2005.
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Give it Up, January 14, 2007
Give it Up is a networked breakdance battle between two geographically separate locations broadcast through a live web stream. Part performance art, part social experiment, the project explores hyper-socialized space of web-based performance through an open-source model of participation.
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Remote Critique December 8 and 9, 2007
Remote Critique is a performance taking place during Art Basel Miami Beach 2007. During the art fair, the artist will create an ongoing audio recording of the conversations and commentary surrounding the second largest art fair in North America, and the various parallel shows that take place during that time. At the start of each business day, the artist will provide a recording of the previous day to be broadcast at p|m Gallery during gallery hours. Visitors to the gallery are invited to join the critique, which in turn will be re-recorded and archived onto a single editioned ipod.
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Freestyle SoundKit
Freestyle SoundKits (2006) are wearable sound pieces that generate and broadcast electronic beats as users move through the urban environment.
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SOUNDBIKE
SOUNDBIKE is a portable sound piece that uses motion-based mini-generators mounted to an ordinary bicycle to broadcast the sound of laughter as the bike is pedaled through the urban environment.
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subwayMU’zik
An informal acoustic inventory of Toronto subway stations that play classical music over their PA systems (2005)
Warden subway station
Running time: 00:03:00
subwayMU’zik is a social investigation into the relationship between official policy and individual agency and the way music is used within public space to control behavior.
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walking machine
2003
omni-directional lapel microphones, mini amplifier, headphones adjustable dimensions
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DIY birdguide
2004
4” X 6” postcard, edition of 1000
House Sparrows, Home Depot, 7 Curity Avenue, Toronto
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