This biography from the Archives of AskART:
| The following is from Stephen Gong of the University of California Berkeley Art Museum Pacific Film Archive:
Jessica Bronson was born on Minot Air Force Base in North Dakota in 1963. She studied biomedical engineering at Louisiana Tech University in Ruston, Louisiana, and received her Bachelor of Science degree from the University of New Mexico in 1987. She then attended the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, where she received her Master of Fine Arts in 1994. Bronson lives and works in Los Angeles.
Fascinated by the genres, history, and construction of film, Bronson works with appropriated footage, as well as film and video images that she shoots on location. Her interest is in the viewer's relationship to the time and timelessness and in time-based media as well as in the everyday. In this way, the non-narrative aspect of her work is informed by structuralist film, just as the sound tracks are influenced by ambient music.
Bronson describes the latter-day poetics of video''s effects as "dynamic distraction,"and her video installations confront and overwhelm the viewer in myriad ways. The result is hypnotic reverie - what we might call "zoning out."Bronson's work can be located within a type of Southern California media art that grows out of and stresses an awareness of film and television and also includes Doug Aitken, Diana Thater, and TJ Wilcox. |
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