Jill Magid
Jill Magid received a Masters of Science in Visual Studies at The Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is attracted to situations from which she is excluded, whether they are spaces, systems or ideas. She looks for a point of entry and invents a means and methodology for access, participation, revelation, or exchange. Seeking out intimate spaces within the public domain, Magid began working with closed-circuit video cameras, interposing her own body within that of the social and institutional. Her work has marked a shift from focus on her own body to the body of institutions and their relative systems of authority. She has commissioned by the AIVD – the Dutch equivalent of the CIA – to make an artwork for their new building.