Green Screen #7
The green screen (originally called the blue screen) is the current version of a standard special- effects device in movies and television-an actor is filmed in front of this monochromatic field that is later replaced with another film showing the surrounding scene. Ubiquitous and invisible, the green screen lies buried beneath the surface of most movies but can be seen nightly, peeking through the map of the TV weatherman.
The artist made this series of pictures by scanning a green screen directly into a computer at a Las Vegas broadcasters' convention and photographing the pixelated image off the monitor. Whereas Alexander Rodchenko had envisioned his red, yellow, and blue canvases as the end of art and a backdrop for a new Soviet utopia of liberated subjects, Deschenes's contemporary monochrome posits a viewer removed from the real and set within endless simulations.
The artist made this series of pictures by scanning a green screen directly into a computer at a Las Vegas broadcasters' convention and photographing the pixelated image off the monitor. Whereas Alexander Rodchenko had envisioned his red, yellow, and blue canvases as the end of art and a backdrop for a new Soviet utopia of liberated subjects, Deschenes's contemporary monochrome posits a viewer removed from the real and set within endless simulations.
Artwork Details
- Title: Green Screen #7
- Artist: Liz Deschenes (American, born 1966)
- Date: 2001
- Medium: Chromogenic print
- Dimensions: 127 x 167.6 x 2.5 cm (50 x 66 x 1 in.)
Frame: 54 × 71 × 3 in. (137.2 × 180.3 × 7.6 cm) - Classification: Photographs
- Credit Line: Purchase, The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Gift, through Joyce and Robert Menschel, 2001
- Object Number: 2001.580
- Curatorial Department: Photographs
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