Janene Higgins

Janene Higgins is an American media artist whose work focuses on print, motion design, and video art.

She was a former art director for Vanity Fair magazine and RCA Music Group; her video Over Water: Transitive States was presented at the Venice Biennale of Architecture 2021,[1] and her projection design for the opera Die Grösste Fuge premiered at the Beethoven festival "BTHVN 2020" in Bonn, Germany.

[8] Her work has been performed and exhibited at the Ruhrtriennale,[9] The New York Video Festival at Lincoln Center; Documenta in Kassel, Germany; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Lyon; City of Women festival, Slovenia;[10] and NYC performance venues Roulette,[11] Experimental Intermedia, and Eyebeam Art + Technology Center.

These included “Release”, an evening of solo performances by a sampling of New York noise musicians; and “Timebomb”, a four-night series of music, poetry, film/video, and cyberculture.

This series was documented in the CD release Timebomb: Live At The Clocktower Gallery issued by PS1 Contemporary Art Center.

Higgins' projection design for the set of Port Bou , opera by Elliott Sharp ( Jenny Lin on piano; bass/baritone Nicholas Isherwood ; and William Schimmel on accordion). Konzerthaus Berlin , 2015