Richard Zeiss + Nicole Jean Hill
August 29–September 11, 2021
“LAGOS” by Richard Zeiss
Tell us about the artwork. What makes it unique?
I spent about three weeks in October and November 2019 in Lagos, Nigeria, as I participated in the 2019 Lagos Biennial. While there, I was shooting footage around the location of the Biennial on 16mm. Back home in London, I developed it, had it transferred to HD, and edited it digitally.
Tell us about yourself. How did you come to be an artist in video/digital media?
Film, mainly 16mm, is just one of the mediums I use in my work. I really like its material, tangible character. It feels like its at the halfway point between painting and digital media.
“Animal Passages” by Nicole Jean Hill
Tell us about the artwork. What makes it unique?
The experimental animation "Animal Passage" explores the markings made by mule deer, elk and pronghorn along seasonal migration routes in Wyoming. The migration routes in this region are some of the longest terrestrial migrations in North America. They are made visible through Google Earth satellite imagery, but remain as unlabeled passageways, revealing themselves only as abstract markings on the land.
Tell us about yourself. How did you come to be an artist in video/digital media?
I am mainly a photographer with a BFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design and an MFA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. However, I have started working with a variety of frame-by-frame animation techniques in Photoshop to explore different forms of imaging surveillance in the natural world. Using the time-based approach through video has allowed me to nd new ways to articulate ideas about the contemporary landscape.