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"  You expect media to come in a media box--a film screen or a TV monitor. But Diana Thater fully integrates media into architecture. In Knots + Surfaces, an installation for Dia, where I was director from 1994 to 2006, she transformed the gallery by using five projectors to cast colored hexagons across large amounts of space--across floors, walls, and ceilings. From one point in the space, the hexagon looks like a hexagon, but as you walk through it, the image completely distorts or disintegrates.   Another theme that runs through her work is the sense of vast, other intelligences that share our world. She has worked with tigers, horses, dolphins, and the bees and zebras you see here. We often think what makes us human is that we think. But if we push that a little, bees have intelligence, too: They organize, find flowers, travel to their honeycomb. How many other intelligences are there that we in our superiority as human beings tend to exclude from our world? Our prejudice doesn&amp;#039;t tell us about animals; it tells us that we are not seeing the world truthfully. A great artist will change how we look at the world. Read Michael Govan&amp;#039;s other modern artist picks in &amp;quot;The Esquire Museum of Contemporary Art.&amp;quot; "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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