Jordan Crandall
Jordan Crandall (US) is a media artist and theorist, initiator of the "Under Fire" project
Jordan Crandall; photo: transmediale 2011
Jordan Crandall is a media artist, theorist, and performer. He is Associate Professor in the Visual Arts Department at University of California, San Diego. His video installations have been presented in numerous exhibitions worldwide; currently, in group exhibitions at the Tate Modern, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Walker Art Center. His video installation Hotel (2009) probes into the realms of extreme intimacy, where techniques of control combine with techniques of the self and paranoia combines with pleasure. Crandall is developing a new philosophy of the event entitled Gatherings, which works across the life sciences, the social sciences, the digital humanities, urban design and architecture. Crandall writes and lectures widely. He is the founding editor of the new journal Version.
bio: 2011
He is the initiator of the Under Fire project, an ongoing art and research project that explores militarization and political violence. He is Assistant Professor in the Visual Arts Department at University of California, San Diego. He is the author of Drive: Technology, Mobility, and Desire (2002), and co-editor of Interaction: Artistic Practice in the Network (1999).
The third phase of his project Under Fire, concerning the organization and representation of war, will open in spring 2004 at the Kunst-Werke, Berlin, and the Bildmuseet, Sweden. Monographs of the first two phases of Under Fire, produced in collaboration with the Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, and V2_Institute for the Unstable Media Rotterdam are now available.
Crandall has recently completed work on Homefront, a video installation exploring the psychological dimensions of the new security culture
http://jordancrandall.com/homefront
bio: 2004
