101 things to do in New York City in the winter – New media artist Jim Campbell’s mesmerizing piece consists of 2,000 flickering LED bulbs that create the illusion of figures and shadows…
http://madisonsquarepark.org/news/jim-campbell-time-out-new-york
Engineering-minded artist Jim Campbell is the latest to set up shop in Manhattan’s Madison Square Park, fusing light and motion in a trio of installations. A colossal matrix of 2,000 LED bulbs—20′ high by 80′ wide—hovers over the Oval Lawn…
At first glance, the hundreds of dangling lightbulbs that make up Jim Campbell’s monumental, three-dimensional Madison Square Park installation Scattered Light seem to flicker at random. Look closer, though, and you’ll soon make out…
http://madisonsquarepark.org/news/jim-campbell-new-york-magazine-11-8-10
Campbell, who studied electrical engineering and mathematics at MIT, holds more than a dozen patents in the field of video image processing – many of which find use in his high-tech artworks. His new commission, Scattered Light, blankets Madison Square Park’s Oval Lawn with a 3-d matrix of nearly 2,000 LED lights suspended within a… Read more
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If you are going to artist Jim Campbell’s extraordinary installation “Scattered Light” at Madison Square Park in Manhattan, do it as I did, ’round midnight with someone you love. From different perspectives, this expanse of 2,000 randomly blinking white lights turns from a block of romantic ice to a marvelous frieze that projects the shadows… Read more
Madison Square Park Conservancy presents Scattered Light, a new site-specific public art installation by pioneering new media artist Jim Campbell. Marking the artist’s most ambitious public art project to date, Scattered Light features three installations of orchestrated light incorporating elements of computer programming and high-technology for a public art installation which literally lights up Madison… Read more
Madison Square Park is glittering with ‘Scattered Light,’ the largest of three new sculptures by artist Jim Campbell (above). During the day, the sculpture looks like a series of clothes lines from which hang a multitude of light bulbs. At night, it comes alive. The 1,600 lights – hollowed out traditional bulbs that have been… Read more
http://madisonsquarepark.org/news/jim-campbell-the-wall-street-journal
“Most of these works — if you pause them — you can’t tell what you’re looking at,” says artist Jim Campbell, as his newest installation flickers in the background…
When the latest public art commission to appear in Madison Square Park is presented to expectant New Yorkers tonight, it will be unveiled with just a flip of a switch, illuminating a myriad of twinkling lights that make up San Francisco–based artist Jim Campbell’s new installations. Strung from high-tension cables, thousands of LED lights gleam… Read more
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