Janet Cardiff

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Full Name	Janet Cardiff
Occupation	Film Producer
Date Of Birth	Mar 15, 1957(1957-03-15)
Age	67
Birthplace	Brussels
Country	Belgium
Horoscope	Pisces

Janet Cardiff Biography

Janet Cardiff is one of the most popular and richest Film Producer who was born on March 15, 1957 in Brussels, Belgium. Janet Cardiff was born 1957 in Brussels, Ontario Canada. She grew up on a farm just outside of a small village. She received her BFA in 1980 from Queens University, Kingston (Ontario). She received her MVA degree from the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, in 1983. She met George Bures Miller while studying in Edmonton. He would later become her husband and co-worker. Cardiff studied photography and printmaking, and her first works were large-scale silkscreens. In 1983, she collaborated with Bures Miller on a Super-8 movie called The Guardian Angel. Cardiff began to incorporate elements of narrative sequencing and experiments with sound and movement into her filmmaking work after this experience.

Cardiff’s first video walk was In Real Time (1999). The video walk took place at the Carnegie Museum of Art library. Participants were required to wear headphones and a small camera attached to them. Cardiff tells us to look at the screen for around 18 minutes and then follow along with what you hear and see. This piece is based on the differences between what you see on the monitor and what actually happens in the library.

A recent mid-career retrospective, Janet Cardiff: A Survey of Works, Including Collaborations with George Bures Miller, opened at P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, Queens, in 2001 and has travelled to Montréal, Oslo, and Turin. Exhibitions in 2006 include Good Vibrations–Le arti visive e il Rock, Palazzo delle Papesse, Centro Arte Contemporanea, Siena; Anticipation, The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago; and Sonic Presence, Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen, Norway.

In her Forty Part Motet she placed 40 speakers in 8 groups, each speaker playing a recording of one voice singing Thomas Tallis’ Spem in alium, enabling the audience to walk through the space and “sample” individual voices of the polyphonic vocal music. This work is now part of the permanent collection of the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada., the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, and of Inhotim in Brumadinho, Brazil. This work was presented at The Cloisters, September to December 2013, that museum’s first presentation of contemporary art. The work was installed in the Fuentidueña Chapel, which features the late twelfth-century apse from the church of San Martín at Fuentidueña, near Segovia, Spain, providing a transformed acoustic experience.

The first multi-media installation that Cardiff and Miller collaborated on was “The Dark Pool”, which was shown in Vancouver in 1995. It consists of a darkly lit room with carpets and cardboard. Visitors can move through the room to trigger sounds like musical segments, conversations and bits of story. Cardiff and Miller are very proud of the work and have refused to sell it despite numerous offers. Canada’s 49th Venice Biennale was represented by Cardiff and Bures Miller. This 16-seat theatre, which featured a film and viewers becoming witnesses to an alleged crime in real life and on screen, was set up at Paradise Institute (2001). The La Biennale di Venezia Special Award was presented to Canadian artists and the Benesse Prize. This prize recognizes artists who are innovative and pioneering in their art. Cardiff and Bures have had recent exhibitions at Fraenkel Gallery in San Francisco (2018), Fruitmarket Gallery in Edinburgh, Scotland (2008), Miami Art Museum (2007), Vancouver Art Gallery (2006), Luhring Augustine (2005), Luhring Augustine (2005), Luhring Augustine (2005), Luhring Augustine (2005), Luhring Augustinine, New York (2004). She participated in Kassel’s Documenta 2012 with her husband. The first is an audio installation called “Forest (for a million years …)>>” that runs for 28 minutes. The second is a 26-minute video walk, specially created for Documenta. It’s called “Alter Bahnhof video walk”.

Janet Cardiff Net Worth

Janet Cardiff is one of the richest Film Producer from Belgium. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Janet Cardiff 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Janet Cardiff, a Canadian artist was born March 15, 1957. She works primarily with sound and sound installations. Her husband, George Bures Miller, is her partner. Miller and Cardiff currently reside and work in British Columbia. Janet Cardiff was first recognized internationally in the art world in 1995 for her audio walks.

Her audio walks are some of Cardiff’s most recognizable solo works. It was created in 1991 during a Banff Centre residency. She was asked to design a site-specific piece in 1996 for the Louisiana Museum in Denmark. She has been a notable walker, creating walks like Her Long Black Hair (2004) in Central Park and Words Drawn in Water (2006) for the Hirshhorn Museum.

Cardiff has been included in exhibitions such as: Present Tense, Nine Artists in the Nineties, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, NowHere, Louisiana Museum, Denmark, The Museum as Muse, Museum of Modern Art, 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. Cardiff represented Canada at the São Paulo Art Biennial in 1998, and at the 6th Istanbul Biennial in 1999 with her partner George Bures Miller.

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Janet Ranked on the list of most popular Film Producer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Belgium. Janet Cardiff celebrates birthday on March 15 of every year.