Jill Taffet creates immersive large-scale video installations, motion paintings, and new media projects have been exhibited nationally and internationally. Previously she was Sr. Creative Director at E! Networks where she won numerous awards for her innovative work including AIGA, Graphis, Type Directors and Emmy Awards. She received her BFA from Cooper Union in New York City and her MFA from San Francisco Art Institute. Currently she is faculty at Ringling College of Art & Design.
Projects
- Cosmic AncestryHD Video, sound, 2 min 6 sec., Digital Animation, Video Projection, Edition of 5 +2 AP Cosmic Ancestry is a large-scale site specific immersive video projection that was inspired by the theory that genetic material from space seeded the earth. It explores abstractly questions of origin, consciousness and mortality. White lines of light morph and evolve projected on perpendicular walls engulfing viewer. The projected light at times plays over them, casting shadows on the wall and making them par
- Abiogenesis SeriesAbiogenesis II, III, IV, V Vertical HD Video Loops 13”x 7 ½ Augmented Reality Digital Prints Architectural Video Installation The Abiogenesis Series is an interactive and motion image installation that explores visually the theory of Abiogenesis, which proposes that the first life forms on Earth arose from nonlife forms more than 3.5 billion years ago. The series consists of four looping animations in which abstract biomorphic forms arise from nothingness and grow to become more complex forms
- PortalsWood, Silkscreen, AR Software (3) 11.5” inch Wood Disks, Limited Edition 5 + 2 AP Created with Adobe Photoshop and Artivive software Portals is an interactive augmented reality installation that allows a doorway into an imaginary microscopic world. The work is inspired by the theory that all species are descendants of single cell organisms and contains images of abstracted forms dividing and moving with purpose and personality as if they were sentient beings. The work is a hybrid mix of printma