The Whitney Museum of American Art presents “Dreamlands: Immersive Cinema and Art, 1905–2016”, a landmark exhibition that focuses on the ways in which technology has created new forms of immersive experience using the moving image. Artists have dismantled and reassembled the conventions of cinema – screen, projection, darkness – to create new readings of space, optical form, and time.
Dreamlands
The Whitney Museum in New York unveils an immersive video exhibition that spans from 1905 to 2016, showing how technology has changed our multisensoriality.
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- 28 October 2016
- New York
The exhibition will fill the Museum’s 18,000-square-foot Neil Bluhm Family Galleries on the fifth floor, as well as the adjacent Kaufman Gallery, and will include a substantial film program in the Susan and John Hess Family Theater, and a series of expanded cinema events organized by Microscope Gallery in Bushwick, Brooklyn, in collaboration with the Whitney.
The works on view engage our senses using color, touch, 3D, music, light, and surface, flattering space through animation and abstraction or heightening the illusion of three dimensions. The exhibition, with works spanning from the early 1900s to the present, is the result of four years of intensive scholarly research by curator Chrissie Iles, involving experts from the worlds of art and film.
until 5 February 2017
Dreamland: immersive cinema and art, 1905–2016
curated by Chrissie Iles
Whitney Museum of American Art
99 Gansevoort Street, New York