Leslie Thornton, "Let Me Count the Ways...", 2004, still image from digital video in color, 22:00

Leslie Thornton: Photography is Easy
6:30pm Wednesday 14 May 2008
EAI - 535 W 22 St, New York NY

Electronic Arts Intermix will screen some rarely seen films and videos tonight by artist Leslie Thornton, whose ambitious, rich works often incorporate a catalog of cross-disciplinary modalities that in the past have been influenced by the artist's interest in media theory, gender studies, linguistics, history, and so on. Thornton's 2004 video Let Me Count the Ways 10...9...8...7...6, for instance, included in this year Whitney's Biennial, presents five short segments on the narratives, historical legacy, and cultural and visual byproducts of the Hiroshima bombing — an event still taught in this country at many public high schools as an overwhelmingly favorable conclusion to the Second World War. The artist will be present tonight to lead a conversation following the screening, as well as present a new interactive video installation.