Janene Higgins
Janene Higgins is a graphic designer and video artist based in New York City. Her work spans several genres, from video performance in the experimental music scene to videos for Saks Fifth Avenue, and the design of several hundred CD packages for such record labels as Sony, BMG, PolyGram, and a wide variety of independents.

Higgins moved to New York City to design magazines, working for such publications as "Esquire", "Working Woman", and "Fame", culminating in three years as a designer for "Vanity Fair" magazine. While at VF, she began designing CD covers and videos for friends in the downtown music scene, which led to an ongoing series of music/video performance collaborations with some of New York's preeminent composers and improvisors of new music. These include duos with Elliott Sharp, Ikue Mori, Mari Kimura, Alan Licht, Nurit Tilles, Okkyung Lee, Aki Onda, and Zeena Parkins. She has directed several short experimental works, often with sound design by notable avant-garde artists including Sharp, Parkins, Christian Marclay and John Duncan. Projection design for theatre include the operas "Binibon", "Port Bou", and "Filiseti Mekidesi". Her work has been performed and exhibited at The New York Video Festival at Lincoln Center; documenta in Kassel, Germany; The Kitchen, NYC; Musée d'art contemporain de Lyon; City of Women festival, Slovenia; The Chelsea Art Museum, NYC; HiTeca Festival in Porto, Portugal; Art Institute of Chicago; Konzerthaus Berlin; The Hamburg Short Film Festival; and at The Impakt Festival in The Netherlands.
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graphic designer
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video art
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New York City
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Saks Fifth Avenue
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Sony
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BMG
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PolyGram
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Esquire
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Vanity Fair
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downtown music scene
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Elliott Sharp
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Ikue Mori
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Mari Kimura
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Alan Licht
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Nurit Tilles
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Okkyung Lee
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Aki Onda
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Zeena Parkins
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Christian Marclay
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John Duncan
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Lincoln Center
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documenta
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Kassel, Germany
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The Kitchen
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Musée d'art contemporain de Lyon
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Chelsea Art Museum
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Art Institute of Chicago
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Konzerthaus Berlin
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Impakt Festival
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Janene Higgins
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