Janet Cardiff
Janet Cardiff is a Canadian artist who works chiefly with sound and sound installations especially a form she calls audio walks. She works in collaboration with her husband and partner George Bures Miller. Cardiff and Miller currently live and work in Berlin. Janet Cardiff first gained international recognition in the art world for her audio walks in 1995.
Janet Cardiff was born in 1957 in Brussels, Ontario, Canada, and grew up on a farm outside of a small village. In 1980, she earned her BFA from Queens University, Kingston, Ontario. In 1983 she earned an MVA from the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. While studying at Edmonton, she met George Bures Miller who would become her husband and collaborator. Cardiffs training is in photography and printmaking and her early works were largescale silkscreens. Her first artistic collaboration with Bures Miller, in 1983, was a Super8 film called The Guardian Angel. After this filmmaking experience, Cardiffs work began to include elements of narrative sequencing, experiments with sound, and movement.
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