Jane Claxton (1998, USA) is a visual artist and documentarian working in essay filmmaking, media archaeology, installation, and 2D media. Her work is motivated by a mosaic of ideological and technological concerns; most of her research is in the area of science, technology, and society, which encompasses inquiries into automation, taxonomy, visual ethnography, epistemology, and cognition. With a hybridized methodology that fuses archival investigation, transcendental filmmaking, and schizoanalysis, she looks at images, machines, systems, records, and ways of seeing.

Her latest feature film, World Record, analyzes a catalog of optical information, such as the evolution of linear perspective, the first image uploaded to the World Wide Web, Oliver Byrne’s graphic reinterpretation of Euclidean geometry, and the three-dimensional cortical network MICrONS. 

Jane holds a graduate degree in Film and Video with a concentration in Integrated Media from California Institute of the Arts. Her films have screened at Slamdance Film Festival, Iowa City International Documentary Film Festival, and REDCAT. Her 2D and installation work has been exhibited at Long Beach Museum of Art and California Institute of the Arts. She is normal and fun to be around.