Watch This! New Directions in the Art of the Moving Image (4.0)

Watch This! New Directions in the Art of the Moving Image is a series of rotating exhibitions drawn from the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s permanent collection. The series recognizes the importance of technology in the history of twentieth- and twenty-first century art, and features examples that have transformed the moving image into a contemporary art practice. Pioneering video art as well as key works in American avant-garde cinema is represented here alongside multimedia installations. Together, these works of art identify the multitude of technologies that artists have engaged since the 1960s and trace the complex relationships between art and electronic media.