{"id":728,"date":"2012-01-29T17:11:16","date_gmt":"2012-01-30T01:11:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/artwork\/cinema\/"},"modified":"2021-01-01T23:10:43","modified_gmt":"2021-01-02T07:10:43","slug":"cinema","status":"publish","type":"artwork","link":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/artwork\/cinema\/","title":{"rendered":"Cinema"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/bild-11.jpg\" alt=\"Image of Cinema art installation by Dan Graham\" title=\"Cinema\" width=\"400\" height=\"202\" \/>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.medienkunstnetz.de\/themes\/art_and_cinematography\/graham\/1\/\">[1]<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dan Graham<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Cinema<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>1981<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Two Sided Glass, Theater Seats, Film, Lights<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Dan Graham\u2019s work, Cinema, is an interesting and&#13;<br \/>\nmultidimensional piece. His notoriety of creating architecturally intricate&#13;<br \/>\nworks that often play with the concepts of perception and light incites&#13;<br \/>\nconsideration of relationships between things such as psychology and society.&#13;<br \/>\nIn the case of Cinema, Graham assembled a specialized movie theater on a ground&#13;<br \/>\nfloor office corner using a system of two sided glass and mirrors. The way in&#13;<br \/>\nwhich he set these pieces of glass up allowed for a variable system of&#13;<br \/>\nperceptions to take place, the lighter of the two sides only seeing a&#13;<br \/>\nreflection from their end while the darker side instead sees a transparency.&#13;<br \/>\nWith this setup, the relationship between the two glasses varies over the&#13;<br \/>\nduration of the piece. The outside public space is able to see the inside as&#13;<br \/>\nthe movie going audience enters and exits the theater, the rest of the time&#13;<br \/>\nseeing a muted, horizontal mirror image of the movie in progress. The inside&#13;<br \/>\nsees a combination of the movie as well as a layered transparency of the&#13;<br \/>\noutside sidewalk activity, only obscured between showing times when the outside&#13;<br \/>\ncan see inward. This intricate setup calls upon themes such as perception, voyeurism&#13;<br \/>\nand self awareness. In being able to semi-view the public engaging in various&#13;<br \/>\nactivities and then being later subjugated to one\u2019s own reflection(as well as&#13;<br \/>\ntheir audience on the other side) it can open one\u2019s eyes to the amount that&#13;<br \/>\nthey perhaps engage in watching other people or conversely how much they have&#13;<br \/>\nbeen watched by others. It also touches on the habitual nature of cinematic&#13;<br \/>\nexperiences as well as political power<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mendeley.com\/research\/dan-grahams-cinema-film-theory-12\/\">[2]<\/a>. Graham never placed a specific message or meaning behind his work,&#13;<br \/>\nleaving it only as an event serving to direct attention toward Cinema, Cinema&#13;<br \/>\nhabits and perception.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>[1]: Image source and information<\/p>\n<p>[2]: Additional information<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":73,"featured_media":5499,"template":"","artist":[744],"streams":[8],"keywords":[3989,2404,3606,2240],"decade":[5542],"media":[5550],"class_list":["post-728","artwork","type-artwork","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","artist-dan-graham","streams-charged-environments","keywords-audience","keywords-cinema","keywords-dan-graham","keywords-mirrors","decade-1980s","media-installation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artwork\/728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artwork"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/artwork"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/73"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artwork\/728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5513,"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artwork\/728\/revisions\/5513"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=728"},{"taxonomy":"streams","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/streams?post=728"},{"taxonomy":"keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/keywords?post=728"},{"taxonomy":"decade","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/decade?post=728"},{"taxonomy":"media","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?post=728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}