Phoebe Davenport, Artist, London.
Video Installation has taken us to a fourth dimension with American Artist, Jennifer Steinkamp and her installations created from a demure painted leaf and expanded into a programmed moving entity. American artist Steinkamp has seemingly worked a magical transition, from painting into video installation. Steinkamp paints the original leaves and duplicates and manipulates them with computer software. These video installations give a sense of wonderment to the idea of video art. Instead of being something so defined by film it has become purely aesthetic. Introducing a 4th dimension with her video installations Steinkamp's video's seem to adulate nature and also a human movement. The movement of the pieces in her works seem to mirror that of nature and brings on a slight intoxication with this profound natural psychedelia.
