Marcia Jane

Artist Statement

I am an artist working with audiovisual spectra. My primary artistic preoccupations are space and frequency; I am interested in experiences on the edge of hearing and the edge of vision.

My works focus on the meetings of things, chance or deliberate, and the vibrancy that arises from these crossing points. In my earlier single-channel video works (2005-2007) I used editing to explore this; creating streams of connected and colliding images in rhythmic temporal and spatial patterns.

More recently I've been using video projections as a tool. I work with projections in a structural way, using them for the light they cast and the way they delineate space as much as for the images they display.

I work with video projections because of their insubstantial, dematerialized nature. My projected images flicker, appearing and disappearing rapidly. They are not tangible nor easy to locate: they are unstable forms. I set up the projections so that light travels throughout the room and meets with walls, floors, surfaces, and the viewer's body. In these works there is no longer a clear centre; what is foreground and what is background, what is heard and what is seen, are no longer easy to decipher.

Each project I make incorporates non-linearity both in its production and outcome. I utilize custom editing and playback systems which include playing games, making algorithms or designing time-patterns. These structural factors lie hidden under the surface, triggering actions independently of each other and creating ripples of interference.

Art Forms