"Shrink", a media installation by Tony Cokes consists of video projections of the Manhattan skyline as seen from a slowly moving tour boat. The panoramic images are overlaid with short texts (Walter Benjamin and Susan Buck-Morss, Andy Warhol, David Hammons, Martha Rosler, Alain Badiou, and others). The writing references aspects of contemporary urban life (race relations, the art world, the myth of progress, and the return of "evil" to the modern political landscape…) The project takes a structuralist visual approach, and this version is an excerpt from a feature-length, three-channel, work-in-progress.

Tony Cokes has shown widely in the internationally and in the US, most recently at American Dream: A Screening at Ronald Feldman Gallery. He and has received grants for his work from the Creative Capital Foundation, Creative Time, the Rockefeller Foundation, the New York State Council on the Arts, and the National Endowment for the Arts, among others. He is currently on faculty at Brown University, in the Dept. of Modern Culture and Media.