UT LANDMARKS presents: Q&A with video artist Jennifer Steinkamp

Landmarks, the public art program of The University of Texas at Austin, celebrates the opening of its newest commission, “EON,” a large-scale digital installation by artist Jennifer Steinkamp.

Please join Landmarks via Zoom on Thursday, September 10 at 4:30 PM CST for a Q&A discussion between Steinkamp and curatorial contributor Rudolf Frieling, with opening remarks from Landmarks director Andrée Bober and College of Natural Sciences Dean Paul M. Goldbart.

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ABOUT THE ARTWORK

EON is Landmarks' newest commission. The 37.7 x 8.93 foot video installation will be sited in the newly renovated Welch Hall, UT’s largest academic facility and part of the College of Natural Sciences. The work may be viewed through Welch Hall’s façade on Speedway until the building re-opens.

Extending the artist’s interest in biology, EON takes its inspiration from the concept of symbiosis. Recognized by scientists as a key component of evolution, symbiosis explains the mutual cooperation of unlike organisms—i.e. flowers and the insects and animals that pollinate them, or friendly bacteria inside the human microbiome—as critical to the survival of diverse species.

In Steinkamp’s installation, biomorphic shapes undulate across the screen, punctuating an aqueous backdrop with bursts of pink, yellow, and multicolored fragments. The work builds on other of the artists’ projects inspired by the natural world, including Eye Catching, an installation of digital trees for the 2003 Istanbul Biennale and Madame Curie, the focus of her 2011 exhibition for the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego.

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ABOUT JENNIFER STEINKAMP

Jennifer Steinkamp (USA, b. 1958, in Denver, Colorado) is an artist known for her video and new media installations that explore architectural space, motion, and perception. Steinkamp has held solo exhibitions at Stanford University, Stanford (2020); Lehmann Maupin, Hong Kong (2019); Talley Dunn, Dallas (2019); Espacio Fundación Telefónica, Madrid (2018); Fosun Foundation, Shanghai (2017); Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego (2016), among others.

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ABOUT RUDOLF FREDLING

Rudolf Frieling is Curator of Media Arts at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) where he co-curated among others the recent retrospectives Nam June Paik (2019-2021), Suzanne Lacy: We Are Here (2019) and Bruce Conner: It’s All True (2016-2017) as well as the survey on contemporary artists working with sound Soundtracks (2017).