This pioneering media arts organization celebrates its 30th anniversary this year. Their international collection of artist media work ranges from the 1960s to the present, including rare historical works and new media works by emerging artists. Many times the creation of art is a solitary business. In creating and exploring the new technologies available to dance, dancer and choreographer Merce Cunningham has often joined forces with composer John Cage and artist Robert Rauschenberg. The center features single-artist projects, which are produced on a substantial scale.
Outer space is the stuff of fantasy and intrigue.
James Turrell is an artist whose work has been championed by Dia. For the past 20 years he has been transforming Roden Crater in the Arizona desert into a monument to light and human perception. Over 200 poets have read their diverse works at this forum. Directed by Charles Atlas, whose work is represented in the Dia Video Salon. This program looks at his work and the buildings in New York that influenced him.