Dara Birnbaum : Technology/transformation: Wonder Woman / T.J. Demos.
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TextSeries: One workPublication details: London : Afterall ; Cambridge, Mass. : Distributed by the MIT Press, 2010.Description: 118 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 21 cmISBN: - 1846380677 (pbk.)
- 9781846380679 (pbk.)
- 778.59 BIR
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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| Standard Loan | LSAD Library Main Collection | 778.59 BIR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 39002100396945 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
A critical examination of Dara Birnbaum's action-packed and riveting video of Wonder Woman's transformations. Opening with a prolonged salvo of fiery explosions accompanied by the warning cry of a siren, Dara Birnbaum's video Technology/Transformation- Wonder Woman (1978-79) is a concise, action-packed, and visually riveting video. During its seven-minute span we see, again and again, the transformation of the drab secretary Diana Prince into the super-heroic Wonder Woman. By isolating and repeating the moment of transformation-spinning figure, arms outstretched-Birnbaum unmasks the technology at the heart of the metamorphosis. In this illustrated examination of Birnbaum's video, T. J. Demos situates it in its historical context-among other developments in postmodernist appropriation, media analysis, and feminist politics-and explores the artist's pioneering attempts to open up the transformative abilities of video as a medium. Demos examines Birnbaum's influence on such artists as Douglas Gordon, Pierre Huyghe, Philippe Parreno, and Candice Breitz, and the turn toward "postproduction procedures"-the mobilization of existing imagery for innovative uses. He also reveals a fascinating historical shift in the reception of Birnbaum's work- a move from an emphasis on her deconstruction of mass culture ideology to an appreciation of her creative use of consumer imagery.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 104-118).