With six large-scale video projections, Diana Thaters Wicked Witch (1996) transforms the Lounges eight-hundred-square-foot black box exhibition space into a disorienting psychedelic poppy field. Inspired by the film classic The Wizard of Oz, Thaters Wicked Witch expresses the artists interests in exploring the relationship between nature and culture, the effects of technology on perception, and the formal properties of the video medium itself. Wicked Witch is one of the most important examples of video art in the museums collection and a prominent work by this celebrated Los Angelesbased video artist.

Projected overhead in the Lounge is a video work by Christian Marclay entitled Telephones (1995). Known as both a musician and an artist, Marclay creates works that explore ways in which sound is experienced. Telephones is a fast-paced single-channel video featuring fragments of telephone conversations from well-known films. From the first ring and hello to the final good-bye, Telephones strings together snippets of famous on-screen telephone calls to create a humorous and riveting composite conversation.

A collection of five video works by Bill Viola can be watched from the reclining viewing area in the back of the Orange Lounge. The Reflecting Pool-Collected Work (1977-1980) features five independent works that also function as a whole. Using a wide range of techniques, from slow motion to rapid editing, these works present the progressive stages of the journey from birth to death. With images of transition-from day to night, object to reflection, motion to stillness-the works in The Reflecting Pool speak of universal life experiences.

The Lounge's storefront features work by New York-based Yucef Merhi, who since 1985 has been manipulating Atari consoles. In recent works from his Atari Poetry series, Merhi reprogrammed the classic Atari 2600 video game system, using binary codes and assembler language. The new program he developed turns a TV screen into a site for the exhibition of his own poetry.