Jim Campbell, Primal Graphics 2002
February 20, 2002 - October 2002

Jim Campbell was born in Chicago in 1956, currently lives in San Francisco and is represented by the Hosfelt Gallery. He received two Bachelor of Science Degrees, in Mathematics and in Engineering from MIT, in 1978. In addition to his participation in Creative Time's Art in the Brooklyn Bridge Anchorage exhibition in 1996, Campbell's electronic artwork is included in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the University Art Museum at Berkeley, and the San Jose Museum of Art. In 1992, he created one of the first permanent public interactive video artworks in the U.S. in Phoenix, Arizona. He has lectured on interactive media art at many institutions, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York. He recently received a Rockefeller Foundation Grant in Multimedia, a Daniel Langlois Foundation grant, a Eureka Fellowship Award and was among the first recipients of the SECA (Society for the Encouragement of Contemporary Art) award in electronic media in 1996. As an engineer, he holds more than a dozen patents in the field of video image processing.