Huang Yongping is a rebel who playfully rejects cultural dogma. He identifies neither with Asian tradition nor with trends imported from the West -- though he employs both. His work is a perpetual contestation of received ideas, an attempt both to empty cultural space of its ideological clutter and t

Bombast, Citational, Deconstructive, Event, Formless

For Video artist Stan Douglas, the moment is always a multiple, layered event. Each moment speaks in chorus -- sometimes in harmony, sometimes not, but always in provocative juxtaposition. Take his 1994 piece entitled "Evening." On three screens that are almost cinematic in scope, three stations

Deconstructive, Distorted, Dystopic, Ironic, Layered, Political

On the day in 1969 when America's first moon shot revolutionized space travel, artist Nam June Paik revolutionized Video art. It was the premiere of the "TV Bra," and visitors at the Corcoran witnessed Charlotte Mormon playing cello topless save for the three-inch television monitors mounted on her b

Deconstructive, Electronic, Fluxus, Geometric, Intimate, Public art, Technology, Whimsical

Adrian Piper is a Conceptual artist who uses language, rhetoric, and visual media to create pieces that render issues such as racism and xenophobia in harshly realistic terms. Also an accomplished professor of philosophy at Wellesley College, Piper sees racism as "a visual and cognitive pathology tha

Angry, Composed, Deconstructive, Distorted, In-your-face, Political