Artist:  Jennifer Steinkamp
Title: X-Ray Eyes
Date:  1999
Dimensions:  screen 34 x 7 feet
Equipment: 4 SanyoPLC-9000 2000 lumen (stacked to 4000 lumen), 1 DVD player
Photo Credit: Jay Venezia, courtesy ACME, Los Angeles and greengrassi, London.
Exhibition History:  Staples Center, Los Angeles, permanent installation. September 30, 1999 on-going. Curator: Tamara Thomas
Description:  This is a permanent, site specific installation, utilizing a curved window detail suspended off the super truss roof of the building. When I first met with the art consultant and architects, they asked me, well what would you like to do, I found this a rather daunting question, here was this enormous building and many large scale possibilities. I noticed the window detail hanging off the roof of the building, at the time it was more of a grid, somewhat akin to the taillight of a Chevy. I decided the window would be a perfect location for some sort of piece. I developed three animations to play during various events held at the Staples Center in the evening.