Janet Cardiff

Canadian (Brussels, Ontario, Canada, 1957)

The Telephone Call

2001
digital media | audio and video walk through the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Not currently on view in the museum
The Telephone Call
Dimensions variable
Acquired 2001
Collection SFMOMA
Purchase through a gift of Pamela and Richard Kramlich and the Accessions Committee Fund: gift of Jean and James E. Douglas Jr., Carla Emil and Rich Silverstein, Patricia and Raoul Kennedy, Phyllis and Stuart G. Moldaw, Lenore Pereira-Niles and Richard Niles, and Judy and John Webb
© Janet Cardiff
2001.60
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cameras, headphones, performances, immersive, site-specific, alternate reality, eavesdropping, guided tours, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, SFMOMA

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