The Architecture of Image and Sound: Dwelling in the Work of Mary Lucier

When asked five years ago to describe her early work in the genre of multimedia, Mary Lucier remarked, "I think multimedia was not a genre at all, but was a process of searching, and to be a multimedia artist meant that you were really looking for the medium that would best accomodate the idea." Lucier's process of search­ing began with sculpture, moved to photography, led to an earthwork, and included performance before arriving, in 1973, at video installation, her primary medium for the next twenty years.