Diana Thater

Diana Thater (born 1962 in San Francisco) is an American artist, curator, writer and educator. She has created a ground-breaking combination of film, video and installation art since the early 1990s. She lives and works in Los Angeles, California.

Biography

Thater received her bachelor's degree from New York University in Art History and her Master of Fine Arts at the Art Center College of Design.

In March 2004, she opened simultaneously at the Museum of Contemporary Art (Siegen ) and the Kunsthalle Bremen in Germany two retrospectives of her work from 1993-2003.

Since 2000, Diana Thater guest artist for the Dolphin Project, a nonprofit organization that protects whales is before slaughter, imprisonment and abuse.

Her work has been the Tate Gallery, presented to the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles and the Walker Art Center in the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Guggenheim Museum.

Work

Thater's work examines the temporal characteristics of video and film, as she literally expands this in the room. She is known for her site-specific installations in which they architectural space through forced interaction with projected images and tinted light - as in " knots surfaces" (2001) and most recently in its exhibition " Dolphins in St. Stephen's Church (2009) " - manipulated. Thater's main interest is in exploring the relationship between humans and the natural world, the differences between intact and manipulated nature. Despite concessions to the structural film are Thater reference points closer to the landscape painting. Thater's stated belief is that film and video are not, by definition, narrative media and could exist that abstraction in moving pictures and this also do.

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