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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
PRESS CONTACT: The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art Presents Stop. Look. Listen: An Exhibition of Video Works 25 works by 16 artists installed on two full Museum floors, Ithaca, NY—The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University presents Stop. Look. Listen: An Exhibition of Video Works, on view from October 13 to December 23, 2007. The exhibition features twenty-five video works by sixteen artists on two full floors of the Museum, as well as in the lobby and projected nightly on the building façade. A free opening reception will be held on Friday, October 26 from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m., preceded by a gallery talk with the curator at 4:30 p.m. The event will also feature live music by the Cornell Jazz Ensemble and refreshments. A shuttle from Cornell’s “A” lot will run from 4:00 to 7:15 p.m. “Stop. Look. Listen. marks five years of concentrated video collecting at the Johnson Museum and continues our commitment to video as a vital part of our program,” said Andrea Inselmann, curator of modern and contemporary art at the Johnson and curator of the exhibition. In the short history of video art, the two primary modes of expression have been “feedback” and “immersion.” Early closed-circuit video feeds were used as an electronic mirror, instantaneously reflecting whatever came into the camera’s gaze. More recently, there has been a shift as many contemporary artists use a more cinematic, “immersion”–style approach in installations with one or more projected images. This exhibition considers the connections between these two prevalent expressions in video from the last fifteen years, focusing on works that have a significant relationship between sound and image. The artists represented in the exhibition are Janine Antoni, Burt Barr, Janet Biggs, Johanna Billing, Slater Bradley, Mircea Cantor, Patty Chang, Amy Globus, Amy Jenkins, Jesper Just, Mads Lynnerup, Christian Marclay, Rodney McMillian, Anri Sala, Salla Tykkä, and Saskia Olde Wolbers. On Thursday, November 8 at 5:15 p.m., there will be a free public lecture in conjunction with the exhibition given by John Hanhardt, consulting senior curator for film and media arts at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, titled “Media Matters: Cinephilia and Installation Art.” The lecture is cosponsored by Cornell’s College of Art, Architecture, and Planning. Curator Andrea Inselmann will lead a free public tour of the exhibition on Thursday, November 29 at noon as part of the Johnson’s “Art for Lunch” series. This project was realized in part with financial support from the Mondriaan Foundation, Amsterdam. The exhibition has been funded in part by public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency. Additional support was provided by the Fifth Floor Foundation, the Consulate General of the Netherlands in New York, Hermès, and the Cornell Council for the Arts. The Johnson Museum has a permanent collection of over 30,000 works of art from Africa, Asia, Europe, and North and South America. The museum building was designed by I. M. Pei. Funds for the building were donated by Cornell alumnus Herbert F. Johnson, late president and chairman of S C Johnson. The building opened in 1973. ### The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, located on the campus of Cornell University, is open Tuesdays to Sundays from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Admission is free. The Museum is completely accessible for mobility-impaired visitors, and a wheelchair is available in the lobby. Metered parking is available in the lot next to the Museum. For more information, please call 607 255-6464. Visit the Museum’s website at www.museum.cornell.edu. The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art is a proud member of Ithaca’s Discovery Trail: www.DiscoveryTrail.com -30-
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