Lennon, Ono and new media

ST. LOUIS -- The Saint Louis Art Museum continues its New Media Series with the series' 12th installment, "Lennon Sontag Beuys" by Kota Ezawa, opening Friday.

Ezawa is known for creating videos by hand-tracing film and television footage with a computer program (picture films like "A Scanner Darkly" and "Waking Life" and you'll get the effect).

For the piece "Lennon Sontag Beuys" the artist selected clips from John Lennon and Yoko Ono's 1969 "sleep-in" for peace in Amsterdam, a 2001 lecture by Susan Sontag at Columbia University and Joseph Beuys' 1974 lecture at the New School of Social Researchin New York, drew over them and ran them in a continuous loop.

Ezawa's work is part of a growing art genre called "new media," a broad genre of non-traditional art forms including video.

The exhibit will remain on display through April 20. For more information, call 314-721-0072 or go to www.slam.org.