Behind the bar, twin TV monitors play an endless video loop of either surfing or skateboarding.
The footage on the installation's video monitors plays at replicating these altered states of consciousness.
Scattered throughout are monitors playing videos dating from 1980 to the present.
Their heads are small monitors playing videos that explore various bits of landscape and dank undergrowth to ambient sounds that include the music of the Albany Harp Singers.
In a nice installation-art, mixed-media touch, overhead monitors play the pertinent scenes from the movie, contrasting fictive black-and-white film with colorful, equally fictive reality.
The monitors play a critical role in creating a democratic veneer, solemnly giving their customized assessments and formal reports, which are promoted by the government-controlled media.
Add video and you have the possibility of a totally immersive theater, as in, for example, Candice Breitz's purple room at Henry Urbach in which a circle of 10 monitors play an international chorus of karaoke performers singing "Killing Me Softly".
Einar and Jamex de la Torre re-imagine Toltec guardian figures, lending them golf clubs for toes and bottles of Bud for crowns; for chests they have TV monitors playing the Nortec music peculiar to Tijuana.
But the United States has not offered to have American prison monitors play a role, as in the plan that ended a stalemate at Mr. Arafat's headquarters in Ramallah.
