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The column for «Members leaving» resembles the black monolith from 200: A Space Odyssey, sandwiched like the centre of an Oreo cookie by the smaller white tablet representing «New members.»

As digital and virtual networks infiltrate our everyday lives and subjective experiences, our relationship with technology manifests less as the fear of invasion by mysterious foreign forces, and more as an intimate grappling with newly mediated realities of time, space, and interpersonal relationships — i.e., less as the black monolith from 2001: A Space Odyssey, and more as the metaphorical «black mirror,» the small, hyperconnected screen prone to catching us in moments of accidental self - contemplation.

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Summary: While investigating a strange signal emanating from a large black monolith on the moon, the crew of Discovery One discover that their onboard AI (HAL 9000) is malfunctioning.

The black monolith, or one of its relatives, is back, having been recently excavated from the bottom of a crater.

The fantastic narrative structure jumps from a pre-historic era, when apes first discovered using bones as tools and as weapons, to a futuristic space - age when man discovers proof of intelligent alien life in the form of a gigantic black monolith on the moon.

As an outsider to Wakanda and a black character getting acclimated to a new world filled with other black people from a different culture, Queen Divine Justice could offer an amazing perspective on various aspects of the African diaspora, proving further illustration that blackness is not a monolith.

Jack Whitten's first exhibition with Hauser & Wirth presents works from several series — «Quantum Walls», «Portals», lenticular works from the «Third Entity», one piece from the continuing Black Monolith Project, and a sculpture (all dated 2015 — 17)-- continuing a five - decade - long investigation of passions vis - à - vis a testing exploration of painting itself.

From left, JACK WHITTEN, «Black Monolith IV for Jacob Lawrence,» 2001; HANK WILLIS THOMAS, «Rich Black Specimen # 460,» 2017; SANFORD BIGGERS, «Quilt # 25 (Yemanja),» 2013 Courtesy SCAD Museum of Art, Photo by Dylan Wilson

From left, Detail JACK WHITTEN, «Black Monolith IV for Jacob Lawrence,» 2001 (acrylic on canvas).

This one looked like the black monolith that was dropped from the sky in the opening sequence of Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, and I asked: «What's that?»

Six Columns (2006) by John McCracken is a grid of gleaming black pillars based on a drawing from the 1970s; while Untitled (yellow)(1966), by his contemporary Robert Grosvenor, suspends a similar minimalist monolith in mid-air.

The relationship between the self - portraits from primeval forests and the «Prism» of human civilization may have similarity with the tension depicted in the scene where the black geometrical monolith appears in front of people and animals in the natural scenery in the movie «2001: A Space Odyssey».

Also included in the show, which travels to the Metropolitan Museum of Art later this year, are works from Whitten's «Black Monoliths» paintings series, which pay homage to Ralph Ellison, W. E. B. DuBois, and others through abstract portraits.

Kara Walker's racially charged gouaches in sepia tinged hues act as a sarcastically delicate counterbalance to Terence Koh's white chocolate monoliths; Tino Sehgal's harmonic narrative «This Is Propaganda,» performed by a female guard, adds an air of the ethereal to an otherwise politically heavy - handed section of the exhibition; artist team Tim Noble and Sue Webster's «Black Narcissus» (2006) draws us back into the corporeal with their penile and phalange inflected shadow - cast portraiture; and Cindy Sherman's work from the early 80s shocks with its carnal ferocity.

Africa has had a rare yet distinct place in popular science - fiction, from the opening scenes of Stanley Kubrick's iconic 2001: A Space Odyssey, depicting the mysterious appearance of a black monolith in the cradle of civilization, to the recent success of Neill Blomkamp's debut movie District 9, a multi-layered allegory on South Africa's recent internal and external tensions.

The artist's ongoing «Black Monolith» project dedicated to memorializing black artists, writers, thinkers, and poets, is represented by Black Monolith X, Birth of Mohammad Ali (2016), another large - scale painting that features two irregular shapes which appear both pooled across the surface and, from a distance, unmoored froBlack Monolith» project dedicated to memorializing black artists, writers, thinkers, and poets, is represented by Black Monolith X, Birth of Mohammad Ali (2016), another large - scale painting that features two irregular shapes which appear both pooled across the surface and, from a distance, unmoored froblack artists, writers, thinkers, and poets, is represented by Black Monolith X, Birth of Mohammad Ali (2016), another large - scale painting that features two irregular shapes which appear both pooled across the surface and, from a distance, unmoored froBlack Monolith X, Birth of Mohammad Ali (2016), another large - scale painting that features two irregular shapes which appear both pooled across the surface and, from a distance, unmoored from it.

The deep black XZ Premium I tested is a 6.1 x 3 x 0.3 - inch replica of the Monolith from Stanley Kubrick's classic 2001: A Space Odyssey

The deep black XZ Premium I tested is a 6.1 x 3 x 0.3 - inch replica of the Monolith from Stanley Kubrick's classic 2001: A Space Odyssey — a tall, slightly forbidding rectangle with smooth edges.