Jeff Talman (born 1954 in Greensburg, Pennsylvania) is a contemporary artist who works in a variety of media including sound, light, video installation, sculpture, graphics and photography.
Though trained as a composer of chamber and orchestral music, Talman switched modes of presentation after an extended stay in Europe.
After two years of experimentation with recordings of spatial sound, Talman's installation “Vanishing Point 1.1” (1999) was presented at St. Paul's Chapel at Columbia University.
This work featured the site's resonance, extracted from a recording of its ambient room tone, amplified, treated as a compositional element and returned to the space in multi-channel sound.
Installation sites have included Cathedral Square (Domplatte) in Cologne, Germany, St. James Cathedral in Chicago, the Bavarian Forest, a wind turbine site in Åland, Finland, the MIT Media Lab, The Kitchen, Eyebeam, bitforms gallery in New York City and others.