About
Jessica Thompson is a Canadian new media artist whose projects investigate spatial and social conditions within urban environments through sound, performance, and mobile technologies. Her projects range from participatory artworks that generate sound through the body to networked performances and site-specific interventions.
Her artworks use sound to facilitate dialogues between body, artwork and site by positioning the body of the user as both input and primary site of reception. By generating sound through the body, movement becomes a form of personal and spatial encoding, placing the body between territories and extending the edges of the body into space through exploratory gesture, embodied interaction, improvised choreography and play. She holds a BFA in Visual Art from York University in Toronto and an MFA in Emerging Practices from SUNY at Buffalo.
Her work has been shown in exhibitions and festivals such as Art Basel Miami Beach (USA) ISEA 2006, (San Jose, CA) FINE/LINE (Denmark) the Conflux Festival, (New York), Thinking Metropolis, (Copenhagen) (in) visible Cities, (Winnipeg) Beyond/In Western New York, (Buffalo) the Deep Wireless Festival of Radio and Transmission Art, (Toronto) and most recently at the Norsk Teknisk Museum. (Oslo) Her projects have appeared in publications such as Canadian Art, c Magazine, Acoustic Territories, and numerous art and technology blogs.