Janet Biggs is an American artist, known for her operate in video, photography and affect art. Biggs lives and works in New York City.
Biggs’ work focuses upon individuals in extreme landscapes or situations and often navigates territory with art and science. Often in force in collaborations afterward neuroscientists, aerospace engineers, astrophysicists and robots, her take steps draws links between inborn terrains and psychological, societal, or political dynamics.
In her videos, Biggs focuses on individuals in extreme landscapes, such as the Taklamakan desert of Western China, the Horn of Africa, the Arctic, and the Mars Desert Research station. Her proceed explores challenges faced by diverse groups including the Uighurs, Indonesian sulfur miners and Yemini refugees. She has captured such endeavors as kayaks temporary a synchronized ballet in Arctic waters and a NASCAR pit crew’s grace dwell on to relief a racecar.
Biggs’ work has taken her into areas of achievement in the Horn of Africa and to Mars (as a crew fanatic at the Mars Desert Research Station). She has collaborated with neuroscientists, Arctic explorers, aerospace engineers, astrophysicists, miners, Yemeni refugees, and a robot. Her earlier video operate dealt behind issues of psychosis and psychotropic drugs.
Biggs was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for Fine Arts in 2018.
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