The moving picture, film, and television have exerted an unmatched influence throughout the 20th century, equally documenting and constructing our reality. The artists in "CUT have taken the material of their reality--the movie and the news program--and manipulated it to reveal its power to communicate and shape reality. Clearly indebted to the appropriation strategies of the 1980s and sampling in hip hop and rap music of the 1990s, these artists are united by their gestural use of editing. Whether through looping, repetition, erasure, or compression, their active manipulation of their medium recalls the importance that action was given by Richard Serra in 1968, when he published "Verb List, a list of actions that a sculptor could use to create sculpture; to roll, to crease, to fold, to cut, etc. "CUT explores the actions through which artists create videos. Through the physical manipulation of the most familiar of media, they restructure reality, making the familiar unfamiliar and instilling in the viewer the opportunity to comprehend and distinguish a new reality. Included are works by Omar Fast, Douglas Gordon, Pierre Huyghe, Christian Marclay, Jennifer and Kevin McCoy, and Paul Pfeiffer.