Since the early 1990s, Doug Ischar's work has focused on the potentials of video and sound in ever more distilled manifestations. Following large multi-media installations such as Orderly (1994) and Wake (1996), Ischar turned to more minimal forms. His 1997 project for InSite (San Diego/Tijuana) used a high school basketball court as locale for a multimedia meditation on adolescent homosexual desire. His 2001 work, ground, uses twenty-four channels of audio to replicate the sound of a gallery floor being swept. His 2005 public installation, Water Music, explores the relationship between personal and artistic histories of the Pacific Rim cultures in which Ischar lived as a child. Since 2006, he has been producing single-channel videos around issues of cross-generational male intimacy and psychological/social loss. These include Back the Way He Came (2006), Baskbrb (2007), and Forget Him (2009). (2007),