Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller have forged a multimedia practice that international critics have identified as one of the most significant breakthroughs in conceptual art in the past decade. For the 2001 Venice Biennale, Cardiff and Miller produced The Paradise Institute, a 13 minute digital video experience combining film/video with the stunning stereo and binaural audio tracks that have become the trademark of their narrative, audio-driven walks through museums and urban landscapes. In this piece, as in others, the artists use sound and moving images in fundamentally new ways, effectively blurring the distinction between the actors in the film and the observers in the audience.

Reprinted from Luhring Augustine press release, 2002.