jamie griffiths
photography, film & performance - concept & innovation -
creative software for business & the arts - research, development & education
Announcements
PANOPTICON film with Diego Samper received an Honorable Mention at the Bogota International Film Festival. Exhibition & installation at the Museum of Modern Art in Bogota opening March 15th 2012. http://mikesbogotablog.blogspot.com/2012/01/ibague-prison-graffiti-project.html
Currently working on...
Isadora workshop London, UK
'I.T.' custom instrument design
'AMAZON' Film with Diego Samper
Jamie is supported by the Canada Council for the Arts, the BC Arts Council & the STEIM Foundation for the Arts (Amsterdam)
Feb 13-17 London 5 Day Intensive
Feb 18 & 19 London Applied Techniques
April 22 & 23 Amsterdam 2 Day Intro/VJ
April 24 Amsterdam, Video Tracking
BIO
jamie griffiths is a UK born photographer, film director, performer, experimentalist, interactive computer media artist & community gallerist. jamie emigrated to Canada in her early 20's but still retains a strong foothold in Europe, collaborating & performing with other artists and teaching workshops.
GRACE with Joe Ink
Innovations in experimental photographic darkroom techniques led jamie into film-making and interactive performance collaborations with dance and music, using motion capture/trigger techniques & wireless hand controllers. Her latest works have included a 3D video-projection collaboration with mathematician & 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 the queer SM, body-manipulation & transgender 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 friends living with hermaphrodism & AIDS/HIV. Jamie's photographs have been published in 17 countries and exhibited in New York, San Francisco, Seattle, Paris, London, Vancouver and Toronto.
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, all in realtime.
Wireless handheld Wii remotes or programmable WiFI hardware such as the iPOD/iPAD can be used as control devices.
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 is an Adjunct Professor at the University of British Columbia, in the Film & Theatre department (since 2009)
- Digital Video Illumination (D.V.I.) Project. Team Leader, Robert Gardiner
- iMUSE Project. Team Leaders Keith Hamel & Bob Pritchard
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
- Digital Intermediate Photography
- Composition & Design, Levels I & II
- Conceptual Photography
- Creative Darkroom with Digital Fusion