PLOT
Finch College Project, 1969, by Robert Morris is an installation which consists of a film projected
in the same site where it was created. It is a significant precursor to the immersive video
installations that gained prominence as a medium for avant-garde art during the 1970s. This
project constitutes a continuation of Morris’s earlier interest in installations that produce a total
environment, as in his 1961 work, Untitled (Passageway). In 2001, the Whitney Museum of
American Art included Finch College Project in the exhibition Into the Light: The Projected
Image in American Art 1964–1977, placing this piece in conversation with similar moving-image
installations created by artists such as Vito Acconci, Simone Forti, Dan Graham, and Joan
Jonas.