1. Born Digital / Medienkunst 1995 -2005
    2024
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  2. Luma Live: Interview with Diana Thater
    2024
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    Practical Effects, 2022  One (1) tent, five (5) projectors, five (5) media players, and six (6) DMX lights Installation view at LUMA Arles, France, 2024 Photo by Victor&Simon - Clèment Vayssieres
  3. Art21: Diana Thater in "Los Angeles"
    2023
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    Untitled Videowall (Butterflies), 2008 Six (6) flat screen LCD monitors, one (1) media player, one (1) distribution amplifier, one (1) fluorescent light fixtures, Lee Filters and existing architecture Dimensions variable Installation View, 1301PE, Los Angeles, 2008
  4. Avant L'Orage
    2023
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    From February to September, from winter to autumn, the exhibition cycle "Avant L'Orage", presented by the Pinault Collection, invites you to take a journey, from shadow to light, through installations and works, some emblematic, others new, by around fifteen artists, who take over all the spaces of the Bourse de Commerce. Against a backdrop of climate change, in the urgency of the present, before the storm breaks again, the artists in the exhibition invent unstable ecosystems representing new seasons.
  5. BOMB Interview: The Time and Space of Isolation: Diana Thater Interviewed
    2020
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    Yes, there will be singing , 2020 Live stream Four (4) video cameras, four (4) speakers, theatrical lights and existing architecture Photo by Fredrik Nilsen
  6. Los Angeles Studio Conversations
    2019
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    Los Angeles Studio Conversations Edited by Stephanie Buhmann For the fourth volume of this ongoing series entitled  Los Angeles Studio Conversations,  art historian Stephanie Buhmann conducted interviews with fifteen artists, whose ages range from early 41 to 96. While the featured genres, processes and aesthetic approaches vary decisively, all participants have one thing in common: they work and usually live in Los Angeles.
  7. Art Matters Heidi Zuckerman Interview Aspen Art Museum
    2017
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    gorillagorillagorilla , 2009 Six (6) video projectors, two (2) video monitors, eight (8) media players, Lee filters and existing architecture Installation View, Aspen Art Museum, 2015
  8. Brooklyn Rail: DIANA THATER with Steven Pestana
    2017
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    ICA Watershed
  9. MCA Talk: Diana Thater "The Sympathetic Imagination"
    2017
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    Exhibition Entrance Installation view, MCA, Chicago, Illinois, 2016
  10. LACMA Unframed: Installing Diana Thater
    2015
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    China , 1995 Six (6) video projectors, six (6) media playersr, Lee filters and existing architecture Dimensions variable Installation view, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California, 2015
  11. LACMA UNFRAMED: A Conversation with Diana Thater
    2015
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    Delphine Four (4) video projectors, five (5) media players, nine (9) video monitors, 1 Synchronizer, Lee filters and existing architecture Installation view, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California, 2015
  12. Art21: Diana Thater: "Delphine"
    2017
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    Delphine , 1999 Inkjet print
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  14. The Sympathetic Imagination
    2015
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      Texts by Giuliana Bruno, Lynne Cooke, Michael Govan, Christine Y. Kim, Lisa Gabrielle Mark, Patti Podesta, and Jason E. Smith This book offers a mid-career retrospective of the work of Diana Thater, one of the most important and innovative artists working today. For more than two decades, Diana Thater has been creating ground-breaking installations that build upon the basic visual language of film and video by integrating architecture, applied color, and artificial and natural light. Depicting a range of natural phenomena, her work is largely organized around an exploration of the subjectivity of animals. This lavishly illustrated overview shows how Thater has radically reenvisioned both the ways in which film and video are deployed in site-related installations and the relationship between subject and object. Luminous images of eighteen projects such as  China ,  Abyss of Light ,  knots + surfaces , and  gorillagorillagorilla  are accompanied by quotes and fictional writings that have long served as Thater’s touchstones. Also included are an interview with the artist and essays on a wide range of topics that Thater addresses in her work—from the history and politics of the Chernobyl disaster to beauty and Baroque architecture. This publication also gives readers exclusive access to a moving image supplement, featuring a film conceived and created by Thater in collaboration with production designer Patti Podesta, as well as an illustrated checklist with short video clips.
  15. Art21: Los Angeles Episode
    2016
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    Art21: Los Angeles Screengrab
  16. Studio International: Diana Thater: 'When someone walks in, they are part of the work. They're inside the work of art'
    2015
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    Life is a Time-Based Medium Three (3) video projectors, one (1) Watch-Out system, one (1) media player Dimensions variable Installation view, Hauser & Wirth, London, United Kingdom, 2015
  17. New York Times: Diana Thater: 'Science, Fiction'
    2015
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    Science, Fiction , 2014 Two (2) video projectors, one (1) media player, and lights Dimensions Variable Installation view, David Zwirner Gallery, New York, 2015
  18. bob Magazine: Diana Thater Interview
    2012
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    Chernobyl, 2011 Six (6) video projectors, six (6) media players, Lee filters Dimensions variable Installation view, David Zwirner, New York, 2012
  19. Artists' Books Revisited Catalogue
    2005
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  20. Weathervane Exhibition Catalogue
    2005
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  21. Keep the Faith 2004 Survey Catalogue
    2004
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  22. Vidéo Topiques Exhibition Catalogue
    2002
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  23. Diana Thater: Knots + Surfaces
    2002
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    This book documents a year-long exhibition entitled  Knots + Surfaces , at Dia Center for the Arts from January 2001 through January 2002, in which Diana Thater presented a large-scale, multiprojection video installation specifically designed to interact with the open architectural space of Dia's third-floor gallery. A charged environment, combining layered projections with a wall of clustered monitors, becomes a metaphorical charting of multidimensional space. Referring to a recent mathematical hypothesis that correlates a complex, six-dimensional spatial model to a map of a honey bee's dance, Thater expands her abiding concern with the intersection of nature and culture. Along with an introduction to both her work and the exhibition by Lynne Cooke, the book includes an essay on Thater's work by Akira Lippit. Edited by Lynne Cooke and Karen Kelly. Essays by Lynne Cooke and Akira Mizuta Lippit
  24. Parkett: No. 60
    2000
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    Presenting unique and in-depth collaborations and editions with leading international artists,  Parkett No. 60  features Chuck Close, Diana Thater and Luc Tuymans, three artists from very different backgrounds. Contributing writers include Francine Prose and Richard Shiff on Close; Sara Arrhenius, Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe and Regina Hasslinger on Thater; and Laura Hoptman, Gerardo Mosquera and Hans Rudolf Reust on Tuymans. This issue also contains essays on David Bunn, Jeremy Deller and Paul Etienne Lincoln, as well as a conversation between Chuck Close and Elizabeth Peyton and an interview with Close by Bice Curiger.
  25. Diana Thater "Untitled", 2000 (for Parkett 60)
    2000
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    Quote from Parkett “Diana Thater considers the perception of animals in parallel with a human perception which may be described as either conditioned by technology (the camera-assisted human) or as a product of it (the human wholly dependent on the idea of the photographic, i.e., as a post-human realization of itself). What is to be compared here is not the animal and the human but the animal and the apparatus, and while the work’s content may be projected on the wall, its subject is the viewer in the gallery.” Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe, Parkett No. 60, 2000 "Untitled", 2000 (for Parkett 60) DVD (Digital Video Disc) with endless loop, no sound, Ed. 150/XXX, signed and numbered
  26. A Living Theatre
    1999
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    Catalog of a group exhibition held at the Salzurger Kunstverein, 3 June-18 July, 1999. Consists of artist’s pages by Andrea Bowers, Jessica Bronson, Sam Durant, T. Kelly Mason, Joe Mama-Nitzberg and Eric Saks; with an essay by Diana Thater. Printed in blue on pink and fuschia paper; spiral-bound.
  27. Auf der Spur
    1998
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  28. Projects 64: Diana Thater at MoMA
    1998
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    The best animals are the flat animals, version 1 , 1998 Two (2) video projectors, two (2) media players, free standing wall and existing architecture Installation view, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, 1998
  29. Sunshine & Noir - Art in LA 1960-1997
    1997
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  30. Diana Thater: Electric Mind
    1996
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    A science fiction tale of a monkey with the mind of a girl. Adapted from the story of a best-selling science fiction writer, Pat Murphy, Thater has given her screenplay version nuances, color, and atmosphere fully in keeping with her other filmic / video work.
  31. Hamza Walker Essay accompanying "China" at the Renaissance Society
    1995
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  32. Limiares: Threshold Ten American Sculptors Catalogue
    1995
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