JILL MILLER ::::

In the summer of 2005, Jill Miller set up camp, for fifty-one days, in a remote part of California’s Eldorado National Forest—one of California’s most common places for Bigfoot sightings. Advised by the Sasquatch community via e-mail on various techniques for making contact, Miller used solar panels to power satellite Internet, a video switcher, laptop, and three infrared surveillance cameras in an attempt to see the elusive creature. For the duration of her endurance performance, cameras monitored her campsite and surrounding areas; the images were broadcast live on the Internet. The installation for We Remember the Sun is comprised of video imagery from the location where Bigfoot sightings regularly occurred in the Eldorado National Forest, as well as clips from interviews Miller conducted during her research into the Bigfoot community. Miller postulates that Bigfoot is a metaphor for the natural human desire for mystery and the unknown. She is interested in peeling back the layers of fear, irony, and pop culture that surround Bigfoot and in creating a space that will generate larger questions of belief and inquiry.

Miller’s work has been widely exhibited. Recent exhibitions include Collectors at 2nd Floor Projects in San Francisco and Playback at the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris in France. Miller has received grants and awards from Arts Council England and D’Arcy Hayman Foundation. Her work has been collected around the world, including a recent acquisition by the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. Miller is visiting faculty in the New Genres department at SFAI. www.jillmiller.net