jamie griffiths
photography, film & performance - concept & innovation -
creative software for business & the arts - research, development & education
Announcements
Jamie is currently working on
WHITE LIES exhibition Electro Studio (Hastings) Sept-Oct 2013
WILD NEW TERRITORIES exhibition (Berlin) Sept 2013
DIRECTOR OF INTERACTIVE DESIGN Indigeneity Exhibition at London's South Bank BargeHouse Oct 2013.
Jamie is supported by the Canada Council for the Arts, the BC Arts Council & the STEIM Foundation for the Arts (Amsterdam)
June 13 Kinect Amsterdam
June 25-27 Berlin with Mark Coniglio
July 8-10 Nottingham Univ, UK
July 22-27 Jacksonville Univ, Florida
BIO
Jamie Griffiths is an interdisciplinary conceptual artist, film director and performer working with cameras, sound, live performance and gallery installations. Jamie designs experimental performance tools and new media environments, as she digs into humanity’s failings and triumphs, employing processes of autobiographical transparency and cultural confrontations.
GRACE with Joe Ink
In the 1990's innovations in experimental photographic darkroom techniques led jamie into film-making and performance collaborations with dance and music, using motion capture/trigger techniques & wireless hand controllers. Her latest works have included 3D video-projection with mathematician & world-renowned knot specialist, Rob Scharein & the birthing of her 'pseudo-robot' called I.V.Y.
jamie’s photographic & performance works have exhibited internationally since 1992. Photographic portraits in outsider cultures of the 1990’s in San Francisco & Vancouver morphed into experiments with photo-therapy technique, working over extended periods of time on projects with people living in struggle. Jamie's photographs have been published in 17 countries and exhibited in New York, San Francisco, Seattle, Paris, London, Vancouver and Toronto.
More on jamie's: Artistic Motivations
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
PRIMAL DIVINE PRODUCTIONS
Software Designs for live performance & control (audio, video & lighting). Innovation, research and development.
Interactive software allows live response to stimulus and sensors, camera feeds, sounds, music, motion. DMX theatre lights, video projections, music and performers can trigger, effect and control each other.
RESEARCH PARTNER & FOUNDING MEMBER
RIGPAD RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT Inc.
Creation of products for the film, arts & entertainment industries, utilizing state-of-the-art technologies, pushing forward innovative wireless solutions for the time-intensive motion control and tracking problems faced by these industries.
Other Research Projects include:
INDEPENDENT RESEARCH Canada Council & BC Arts Council funding.
- Videmote/Wavelite Project Video spotlight, motion tracking, 3D video
- STEIM Centre for the Arts, Amsterdam Wireless controllers for artists in live performance using interactive software.
WAVELITE Research Project with Rob Scharein & Jason DuBois
UNIVERSITY RESEARCH Projects SSHRC funding.
jamie was appointed an Adjunct Professor at the University of British Columbia, in the Film & Theatre department from 2009 - 2012 for the Digital Video Illumination (D.V.I.) Project. Team Leader, Prof Robert Gardiner
EDUCATOR/INSTRUCTOR
Workshops & Guest Lectures
- Interactive Software & Technology For Artists. Video, Audio, Lighting. Wireless hand-held controllers, motion tracking & motion control.
- Lens-based Visual Arts. Artistic Practice, Conceptual Photography, Visual Design
- Workshops
Faculty
Instructor, Langara College, BC Photography Professional Diploma Program 2002-2012
- Digital Intermediate Photography
- Composition & Design, Levels I & II
- Conceptual Photography
- Creative Darkroom with Digital Fusion