Surveillance

Ernie Gehr, Surveillance, 2010, four-channel video installation, color, silent; 17:32 minutes, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase through the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment, 2012.8.1, © 2010, Ernie Gehr

Ernie Gehr, Surveillance, 2010, four-channel video installation, color, silent; 17:32 minutes, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase through the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment, 2012.8.1, © 2010, Ernie Gehr

Ernie Gehr, Surveillance, 2010, four-channel video installation, color, silent; 17:32 minutes, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase through the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment, 2012.8.1, © 2010, Ernie Gehr

Ernie Gehr, Surveillance, 2010, four-channel video installation, color, silent; 17:32 minutes, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase through the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment, 2012.8.1, © 2010, Ernie Gehr

Ernie Gehr, Surveillance, 2010, four-channel video installation, color, silent; 17:32 minutes, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase through the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment, 2012.8.1, © 2010, Ernie Gehr

Ernie Gehr, Surveillance, 2010, four-channel video installation, color, silent; 17:32 minutes, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase through the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment, 2012.8.1, © 2010, Ernie Gehr

Ernie Gehr, Surveillance, 2010, four-channel video installation, color, silent; 17:32 minutes, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase through the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment, 2012.8.1, © 2010, Ernie Gehr

Ernie Gehr, Surveillance, 2010, four-channel video installation, color, silent; 17:32 minutes, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase through the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment, 2012.8.1, © 2010, Ernie Gehr

Ernie Gehr, Surveillance, 2010, four-channel video installation, color, silent; 17:32 minutes, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase through the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment, 2012.8.1, © 2010, Ernie Gehr

Ernie Gehr, Surveillance, 2010, four-channel video installation, color, silent; 17:32 minutes, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase through the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment, 2012.8.1, © 2010, Ernie Gehr

Ernie Gehr, Surveillance, 2010, four-channel video installation, color, silent; 17:32 minutes, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase through the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment, 2012.8.1, © 2010, Ernie Gehr

Ernie Gehr, Surveillance, 2010, four-channel video installation, color, silent; 17:32 minutes, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase through the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment, 2012.8.1, © 2010, Ernie Gehr

Ernie Gehr, Surveillance, 2010, four-channel video installation, color, silent; 17:32 minutes, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase through the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment, 2012.8.1, © 2010, Ernie Gehr

Ernie Gehr, Surveillance, 2010, four-channel video installation, color, silent; 17:32 minutes, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase through the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment, 2012.8.1, © 2010, Ernie Gehr

Artwork Details

Title: Surveillance
Artist: Ernie Gehr
Date: 2010
Location: Not on view
Copyright: © 2010, Ernie Gehr
Credit Line: Museum purchase through the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment
Mediums: video
Mediums Description: four-channel video installation, color, silent; 17:32 minutes
Classifications: Media Arts
Object Number: 2012.8.1
Linked Open Data: https://edan.si.edu/saam/id/object/2012.8.1

Works by this artist (2 items)

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Date1974

16 mm Plus-X print, black and white, silent; 30:00 minutes

Ernie Gehr, Surveillance, 2010, four-channel video installation, color, silent; 17:32 minutes, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase through the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment, 2012.8.1, © 2010, Ernie Gehr

Artist

Date2010

four-channel video installation, color, silent; 17:32 minutes

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Watch This! New Directions in the Art of the Moving Image (2.0)

March 16, 2012–April 13, 2013

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Watch This! New Directions in the Art of the Moving Image is a series of rotating exhibitions drawn from SAAM’s permanent collection.

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