Janene Higgins
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Janene Higgins is a graphic designer and video artist based in New York City. Her work spans several genres, from video performance in the experimental music scene to videos for Saks Fifth Avenue, and several hundred CD packages for such record labels as Sony, BMG, PolyGram, and a wide variety of independents.
Higgins came to New York in 1986 to design magazines, working for such publications as Esquire, Working Woman, and Fame, culminating in three years as a designer for Vanity Fair magazine. In the early 90s, she began designing CD covers and videos for friends in the downtown music scene, which led to her developing a technique for live video performance. She has collaborated with many of New York's preeminent composers and improvisors of new music, including duo performances with Elliott Sharp, Ikue Mori, Alan Licht, Nurit Tilles, Okkyung Lee, Aki Onda, and Zeena Parkins. Her work has been performed and exhibited at The New York Video Festival at Lincoln Center; documenta in Kassel, Germany; Museum of Contemporary Art, Lyon; City of Women festival, Slovenia; The Chelsea Art Museum, NYC; HiTeca Festival in Porto, Portugal; Art Institute of Chicago; Experimenta Festival in Buenos Aires; The Hamburg Short Film Festival; and at The Impakt Festival in The Netherlands.[1]
