Wendy Babcox

www.wendybabcox.com

Wendy Babcox is a British interdisciplinary artist whose work deals largely with the visual politics of Florida's tourist attractions. Her work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally with photographs and video travelling to exhibitions in Russia, New Zealand, Peru, Columbia, Bethlehem and Mexico among other places. She recently completed her first public artwork for the Lights on Tampa public art program that opened in January 2006.

She teaches workshops in video in the summer program at Anderson Ranch Art Center. In 2007 her intermediate workshop will run from July 23-27th.

Untitled Visit 2003
This two channel video installation features imagery of women performing in tourist destinations or in parades and festivals in one channel, and visitors to video chatrooms in the other. The footage of the female"attractions" was piped into the webcam window for the "visitors" to view, who were asked to blow kisses in return in a show of gratitude. The project calls upon notions of the spectacle and surveillance, the poetry of flirtation, mischeif and desire.