Dara Birnbaum : Technology/Transformation: Wonder Woman Paperback / softback
by Thomas J. Demos
Part of the Afterall Books / One Work series
Paperback / softback
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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.
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- Pages:118 pages, 32 color illus.
- Publisher:MIT Press Ltd
- Publication Date:29/10/2010
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Only a few left - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:118 pages, 32 color illus.
- Publisher:MIT Press Ltd
- Publication Date:29/10/2010
- Category:
- ISBN:9781846380679