Closed Circuit: Video and New Media April 24, 2007

This exhibition will present a selection from the growing collection put together by the Department of Photographs over the last five years, from David Hammons's raucous and surprising 'Phat Free' and Darren Almond's hallucinatory 'Schwebebahn' to Omer Fast's 'Spielberg's List,' a 65 minute, two-screen pseudodocumentary about Hollywood and the Holocaust that is alternately ironic and harrowing. Also included will be Lutz Bacher's surveillance of the late art dealer Pat Hearn, Wolfgang Staehle's 24-hour landscape "painting" set in the Hudson River Valley, Maria Marshall's haunting portrait of her young son entitled 'When I Grow Up I Want to Be a Cooker,' a digital update of Eadweard Muybridge's celebrated motion studies from the 1880s by new media pioneer Jim Campbell and 'abc' by Ann Hamilton.