Janet Cardiff (born 1957) is a Canadian installation artist. 1957 was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Installation can be used to refer to Installation (computer programs) of an operating system or program. ...

She was born in Brussels, Ontario. She studied at Queen's University in Kingston (BFA) and the University of Alberta (MVA). She currently lives and works in Lethbridge, Alberta. Brussels is a community in Ontario, Canada. ... University of Alberta on the south side of Edmonton The University of Alberta is situated along the south bank of the North Saskatchewan River in the heart of the city of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. ... }|135px|City of Lethbridge, Alberta Coat of Arms]]}} {{Canadian City/Disable Field={{{Disable Motto Link}}}}} Motto: Sunny South City of Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada location. ...

Her artworks, whether they are installations or walking pieces, are mainly audio-based. She has been included in exhibitions such as: "Sculpture Projects", Muenster, 1997, "Present Tense, Nine Artists in the Nineties", SFMOMA, "NowHere", Louisiana Museum, Denmark, "The Museum as Muse", MOMA, Sao Paulo Bienal '98, 6th International Istanbul Biennial, The Carnegie International '99/00, "The Tate Modern Opening Exhibition" as well as a project commissioned by Artangel in London. This project ("The Missing Voice (Case Study B)") was commissioned in 1999 and continues to run. It is an audio tour that leaves from the Whitechapel Library, next to the Whitechapel tube stop and snakes its way through London's East End, weaving fictional narrative with descriptions about the actual landscape.

Another similar project is a rendition of Thomas Tallis' Spem In Alium, in Cardiff's "Forty-Part Motet" (2001), on exhibit in the Rideau Street Chapel at the National Gallery of Canada. Forty speakers are set around the Chapel, each one featuring a single voice of the forty-part choir. The result is a highly-enhanced stereophonic effect, as visitors may hear each individual voice through its corresponding speaker, or listen to the voices of the entire choir blending in together with varying intensities, as one moves around the Chapel. Thomas Tallis Thomas Tallis (ca. ... Spem in Alium is a forty-part motet composition by Thomas Tallis. ... 2001: A Space Odyssey. ... The Rideau Chapel was part of a school on Rideau Street in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. ... National Gallery of Canada on Canada Day. ... Stereophonic means having two channels of audio. ...

Her other works are included in private and public collections in Canada, the United States and Europe. World map showing location of Europe When considered a continent, Europe is the worlds second smallest continent in terms of area, with an area of 10,600,000 km² (4,140,625 square miles), making it larger than Australia only. ...

Janet is represented by Luhring Augustine Gallery, NYC, and Barbara Weis Gallery, Berlin.

See Also

Rideau Street Chapel The Rideau Chapel was part of a school on Rideau Street in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. ...

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