Outer Space Sat, Oct 29, 2016, 1 pm

Outer Space

Sat, Oct 29, 2016
1 pm

John Stehura (b. 1943), still from Cibernetik 5.3, 1960–65. 16mm film, color, sound, 8 min., transferred to video. Courtesy Center for Visual Music.

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The Susan and John Hess Family Theater is equipped with an induction loop and infrared assistive listening system. Accessible seating is available.

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Floor Three, Susan and John Hess Family Gallery and Theater

Outer Space brings together a group of films whose cosmological spectacle and other-worldly beauty immerses the viewer in sensations of what outer space might look and feel like. The program includes Black Hole cinema, an expanded cinema event that interprets everything that emits light, from photons to stars and galaxies, as projections.

Jordan Belson (1926–2011), Music of the Spheres, 1977/2002
Jordan Belson (1926–2011), Samadhi, 1967
John Stehura (b. 1943), Cibernetik 5.3, 1960–65
Stan VanDerBeek (1927–1984), Astral Man: An Illuminated Poem, 1959
Jordan Belson (1926–2011), Re-entry, 1964

Black Hole Cinema
Bradley Eros, Black Hole Cinema, 2016

Please note: This event has reached ticketing capacity. A limited number of standby tickets may be available at the admissions desk on a first-come, first-served basis. The standby line will open one hour to the program’s start time. Tickets are required ($12 adults, students, and seniors; free for members). Doors open thirty minutes before the program begins. Ticket holders are guaranteed admission until the start of the program, at which time any unclaimed seats will be released.


On the Hour

A 30-second online art project:
Maya Man, A Realistic Day In My Life Living In New York City

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Learn more at whitney.org/artport

On the Hour projects can contain motion and sound. To respect your accessibility settings autoplay is disabled.