Doug Aitken emerged in the 1990s as an incisive and daring film and video artist. He is recognized worldwide as an important voice in the still-young medium of projected video, alongside contemporaries like British artist Gillian Wearing (who recently had a solo presentation at the Henry Art Gallery in Spring 2003). The Henry Art Gallery is committed to presenting important, multimedia works by artists of this generation. Aitken received the International Prize at the 48th Venice Biennale for Electric Earth (1999). His recent work has been described as “an exercise in the digital sublime” and an “updating of Caspar David Friedrich for the Discovery Channel generation.” Through the possibilities and rhythms afforded by the video medium, the artist works with big themes like movement and stasis, sea and sky, experience and information, and nature and the city. For interiors, visitors enter a large room divided into a cross-shaped space by walls consisting of transparent scrims. A circular bench positioned in the middle suggests the best viewing space. The fabric allows the viewer to see the projections (and other visitors) from ‘outside.’ Each screen features a rotating sequence of four character-focused scenarios of the same length and form, each with an individual soundtrack. With the three screens, each presenting one scenario at a time, the work cycles through four combinations.