Three monitors face the center of the gallery.
When I visit the drab testing rooms, in each one four rows of chairs are aligned with desktop monitors, facing a large-screen television on an altar.
John B. Taylor, the man on trial for planning and participating in the murders, sat impassively as the tape was played on large-screen television monitors facing both the jury and the families of the victims sitting in the courtroom behind him.
A modular aluminum frame outlines a few deceptively quiet images: a wheeled armchair; Hamlet sitting in the armchair, reading; three video monitors facing out into the theatre and replicating bits and pieces of the actor and the stage; a wide stepped platform, stage left; and, behind it all, a large movie screen on which the curtain is about to rise on Richard Burton's "Hamlet".
The work's current iteration, a scaled-down "remix" of the original, consists of four flat-screen monitors facing an array of speakers, which are wired to a pulsating, blue-and-red L.E.D. array on a planter containing a small specimen of Psychotria viridis, one of the two principal plants used in the preparation of ayahuasca.
He also fears Avahan's now experienced M.B.A.-degreed field monitors, facing shrinking salaries, will depart.
"If you buy a Bruce Nauman installation of two monitors facing each other, you should respect that structure," recommends Wittels.
The girl worked her scanner and touch screen, and I watched with pleasure as the product names appeared sharply on the new LCD monitor facing me above her shoulder.
The show contains what still may be the best work that Seth Price, an artist of some reputation, has produced: a 2004 sculpture consisting of a video monitor, facing up from its cardboard carton, on which plays a debate about art and the market among Robert Smithson, Richard Serra and the art dealer Joseph Helman.
