Jasper van den Brink was born in 1968 in Leidschendam, The Netherlands, and currently lives and works in Amsterdam. He attended the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam from 1991-1996, and studied performance and video for a year at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1994. He participated in the Rijksakademie residency program in Amsterdam in 2000-2001, and the International Artists Studio Program in Stockholm, Sweden in 2004-2005. His work has been exhibited frequently throughout the Netherlands, and in other countries including Canada, France, Germany and Russia. Van den Brink's videos problematize the way the video camera is normally used by artists and understood by viewers, as if it were the extension of a presumed body, which moves and 'sees' in an anthropomorphic way.

In cinematic films, the relationship between camera and viewer is usually more or less one to one: the camera shows what the viewer would be seeing if he were in the place of action. And indeed, the viewer usually imagines a body attached to the camera, a body that behaves exactly like his own. This body can turn its head or bend its knees; it can come forward to take a closer look or step back to get an overview. Jasper van den Brink takes pleasure in letting this imaginary camera-body perform the impossible. In Tunnel Vision it is floating and tumbling through a road tunnel, holding on to the belly of a turning cement mixer. In this way, using effective camera positions rather than special effects or complex digital tricks, he undermines the one-to-one relationship with the viewer. (Netherlands Media Art Institute, Vinken & van Kampen.)