Diana Thater.DIA CENTER FOR THE ARTS Diana Thater has spent her career harking the call of the wild, videotaping exotic animals like wolves wolves n. Plural of wolf. wolves Noun the plural of wolf Wolves See also animals. lycanthrope 1. a person suffering from lycanthropy. , zebras, and Andalusian stallions. This isn't Discovery Channel fare, though. Thater's colorful, complex video installations investigate nature as a fluid concept, created by us and for us as a construct against which to locate our own identities. At Dia, monitors on the floor and projections on the walls and ceiling will fill the cavernous cavernous /cav·er·nous/ (kav´er-nus) 1. pertaining to a hollow, or containing hollow spaces. 2. having a hollow sound, such as certain abnormal breath sounds. third floor in this, the artist's largest American commission to date. Her subject is the honeybee honeybee Broadly, any bee that makes honey (any insect of the tribe Apini, family Apidae); more strictly, one of the four species constituting the genus Apis. The term is usually applied to one species, the domestic honeybee (A. and its systems of communicating and mapping space--an apiarian analogue (electronics) analogue - (US: "analog") A description of a continuously variable signal or a circuit or device designed to handle such signals. The opposite is "discrete" or "digital". , perhaps, for the spirit of the hive as evidenced in our own attempts to map and navigate our wired universe. Jan. 24-Jan. 2002. |
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