Jean Bridge is a new media artist whose work has included print and multimedia installations, CD-ROMs, interactive image projections and public interventions. Her recent work, Livelihood, will be exhibited at Red Head Gallery in March 2010. This work examines and challenges "automobility" in the urban/surburban environment. It does so by putting the spectator in an active role of the walker rather than the passive viewing role of the driver.  The work uses an interactive system designed by the artist to enable embodied reading and response for a large-scale interactive image projection.

Bridge's work is collected by the Canada Council Art Bank and other significant public art museums and collections.  Her work over the past 25 years is archived in the Centre for Contemporary Canadian Art database of Canadian art.

As an associate professor in the Department of Visual Art and the Centre for Digital Humanities at Brock Univeristy, Bridge is part of a collaborative research team whose work focuses on New Conventions and Methodologies in Documentation of Fine and Performing Arts. She recently presented a paper at the 2009 Digital Arts and Culture Conference entitled "Preserving New Media Art: Representing Experience".

Images:

Livelihood, Sign Lite.  Laser-cut Vinyl. Size Variable

Livelihood, Trisign.  Laser-cut Vinyl.  Size Variable

visit Jean Bridge's website.