Dara Birnbaum

Technology/Transformation: Wonder Woman

Thomas J. Demos

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MIT Press
29 October 2010

Art & design styles: from c 1960

Series: Dara Birnbaum

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.

By: Thomas J. Demos
Imprint: MIT Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 13mm
Weight: 318g
ISBN: 9781846380679
ISBN 10: 1846380677
Series: Dara Birnbaum
Pages: 118
Publication Date: 29 October 2010
Recommended Age: From 18 years
Audience: General/trade , Professional and scholarly , ELT Advanced , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

T. J. Demos, an award-winning writer, is Professor of Visual Culture at the University of California, Santa Cruz and Director of its Center for Creative Ecologies. He writes widely about contemporary art, global politics, and ecology, and is the author, most recently, of Against the Anthropocene- Visual Culture and Environment Today (Sternberg Press).

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Dara Birnbaum

Technology/Transformation: Wonder Woman

Thomas J. Demos

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