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Signals

How Video Transformed the World

Michelle Kuo Stuart Comer Erika Balsom Aria Dean

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English
Museum of Modern Art
09 June 2023
Having become widely accessible as a consumer technology in the 1960s, video is ever-present today-on our phones and our screens, defining new spaces and experiences, shaping our ideas and politics, and spreading disinformation, documentation, evidence, fervor. Signals: The Politics of Video charts the ways in which artists have both championed and questioned the promise of video, revealing a history that has been planetary, critical, and activist from its very beginnings. The Museum of Modern Art has been at the forefront of bringing video into museums-pioneering the collection, conservation, and definition of a new artistic medium. Signals aims to renew and revise our understanding of art and video, both within and outside the museum.

A companion to the exhibition, this catalogue-the Museum's first major publication on the subject in twenty-five years-includes an introductory essay by the curators and six thematic texts by leading scholars and artists that investigate the range of artistic engagements with video, media, and the public sphere. Here, video is posed not as a traditional medium but as a pervasive and fluid media network that is thoroughly global, social, and interactive: a means of politics.

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Imprint:   Museum of Modern Art
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 254mm,  Width: 202mm, 
Weight:   720g
ISBN:   9781633451230
ISBN 10:   1633451232
Pages:   200
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Stuart Comer is the Lonti Ebers Chief Curator of Media and Performance at The Museum of Modern Art. Michelle Kuo is the Marlene Hess Curator of Painting and Sculpture at The Museum of Modern Art. Erika Balsom is a senior lecturer in Film Studies and Liberal Arts at King's College London. Aria Dean is an artist, writer, and curator living and working in Los Angeles and New York. David Joselit is Professor of Art, Film and Visual Studies at Harvard University. Tiffany Sia is an artist, filmmaker and independent film producer. Ravi Sundaram is Senior Fellow, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi.

Reviews for Signals: How Video Transformed the World

"Ambitious...stands proud as the most perplexing exhibition of the year.--Jason Farago ""The New York Times: Arts"" Signals, standing through mid-July, explores the ways, since video's debut in the 1960s, in which artists have commandeered, exploited, and been influenced by the medium--as witnessed in acts of protest, network formation, and with amusement and curiosity, at its promise to deliver new truth, new cultural insight.-- ""Flaunt"" Sprawling, frequently thought-provoking...considers video as a political force.--Dennis Lim ""E-flux"" Gets to the heart of what video art is all about: the sense that we need no longer be passive viewers who are force-fed a one-way stream of information.--Alex Greenberger ""ARTnews"" The variety of material - collected over six decades - shows the myriad ways in which artists have used and misused video and its broadcast technologies to create their own networks, insert themselves in existing networks, and overtly resist or critique them.--Matt Shaw ""Guardian"""


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