Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller: Installations
The artists’ immersive multimedia sound installations utilize narrative musical composition to augment and challenge our perception.
![Photograph of an installation of a chair in front of a keyboard, surrounded by multiple stacked speakers](https://fraenkelgallery.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/JC-GBM-001-Install-View-1-1350x900.jpg)
Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller, The Poetry Machine, 2017
interactive installation, words and voice by Leonard Cohen, dimensions variable
![Color photograph of a piano and chairs facing the piano in the middle of an old church](https://fraenkelgallery.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/JCGBM-0123.png)
Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller, Instrument of Troubled Dreams, 2018
interactive audio installation with ambisonic sound
![Color photograph of a group of people seated in a forest](https://fraenkelgallery.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/JC-GBM-004-1350x900.jpeg)
Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller, FOREST (for a thousand years…), 2012
audio installation, 28 minute loop, edition of 3
![Color image of nine rotary phones on an aged green armoire in a white walled gallery](https://fraenkelgallery.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/JCGBM-0137-1.jpg)
Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller, Conversations with my Mother, 2023
wooden shelf, telephones, electronics, audio, 81-1/2 x 39 x 21-1/2 inches (overall) [207 x 99.1 x 54.6 cm], edition of 3
![Color image of nine rotary phones on an aged green armoire](https://fraenkelgallery.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/JCGBM-0137-5.jpg)
Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller, Conversations with my Mother (detail)
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Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller
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Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller
![Photograph of an installation of a slide projector, flanked by chairs, projecting a color landscape onto a screen](https://fraenkelgallery.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/JC-GBM-005-Install-View-3-1350x900.jpg)
Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller, Road Trip, 2004
computer controlled slide projector with audio, dimensions variable
![Photograph of an installation of a chair in front of a keyboard, surrounded by multiple stacked speakers](https://i0.wp.com/fraenkelgallery.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/JC-GBM-001-Install-View-1-scaled.jpg?fit=675%2C450&quality=90&strip=all&ssl=1)
Janet Cardiff & George Bures MillerThe Poetry Machine
2017
interactive installation, words and voice by Leonard Cohen, dimensions variable
![Color photograph of a piano and chairs facing the piano in the middle of an old church](https://i0.wp.com/fraenkelgallery.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/JCGBM-0123.png?fit=675%2C451&quality=90&strip=all&ssl=1)
Janet Cardiff & George Bures MillerInstrument of Troubled Dreams
2018
interactive audio installation with ambisonic sound
![Color photograph of a group of people seated in a forest](https://i0.wp.com/fraenkelgallery.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/JC-GBM-004.jpeg?fit=675%2C450&quality=90&strip=all&ssl=1)
Janet Cardiff & George Bures MillerFOREST (for a thousand years…)
2012
audio installation, 28 minute loop, edition of 3
![Color image of nine rotary phones on an aged green armoire in a white walled gallery](https://i0.wp.com/fraenkelgallery.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/JCGBM-0137-1.jpg?fit=675%2C1012&quality=90&strip=all&ssl=1)
Janet Cardiff & George Bures MillerConversations with my Mother
2023
wooden shelf, telephones, electronics, audio, 81-1/2 x 39 x 21-1/2 inches (overall) [207 x 99.1 x 54.6 cm], edition of 3
![](https://i0.wp.com/fraenkelgallery.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/JCGBM-2024-install-view-12.jpg?fit=675%2C450&quality=90&strip=all&ssl=1)
Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller
![Photograph of an installation of a slide projector, flanked by chairs, projecting a color landscape onto a screen](https://i0.wp.com/fraenkelgallery.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/JC-GBM-005-Install-View-3-scaled.jpg?fit=675%2C450&quality=90&strip=all&ssl=1)
Janet Cardiff & George Bures MillerRoad Trip
2004
computer controlled slide projector with audio, dimensions variable