Technology/Transformation: Wonder Woman
The video opens with a barrage of explosive imagery along with an audio track of a siren taken from the 1970s TV show Wonder Woman. The following...
See moreLiberty: A Dozen or So Views
In an early work, video artist Dara Birnbaum records a cross section of fellow passengers aboard the Staten Island Ferry while en route to the...
See moreLocal TV News Analysis
Local TV News Analysis is the document of a collaborative project of Graham and Birnbaum, in which they investigate local television news, both in...
See moreArtbreak, MTV Networks, Inc.
1987, 30 sec, color, sound Produced for an Artbreak segment on MTV Network, this dynamic "thirty-second spot" presents an abbreviated history of...
See moreMirroring
“In this early performance-based work, Birnbaum investigates the notion of video as a mirror to create a psychological self-portrait. Devising a...
See moreFire! Hendrix
Commissioned by VideoGram International, Ltd., for a videodisc of music by Jimi Hendrix, Fire! uses the stylized visuals and pacing of a music...
See morePM Magazine/Acid Rock
Appropriating material from the introduction to the nightly television show, PM Magazine and a commercial for Wang Computers, Birnbaum uses...
See moreRemy/Grand Central: Trains and Boats and Planes
Commissioned by Remy Martin for a public exhibition in Grand Central Station in New York, Remy/Grand Central is an advertisement with a...
See moreKiss the Girls: Make them Cry
Constructed of footage recorded from the television game show Hollywood Squares. The bulk of the piece is made up from recorded introductory...
See morePop Pop Video
"Dara Birnbaum's Pop-Pop Video... [has] been hailed as [a] classic of the new wave. [The tape] juxtaposes fragments from a soap opera with...
See moreDamnation of Faust Trilogy
1. Damnation of Faust: Evocation - Using "found" imagery shot in a SoHo playground, the first part of the Damnation of Faust trilogy explores the...
See moreJodie
Friedman documents a model during a fashion shoot, the exaggerated, staccato rhythms of her camera punctuated by machine-gun like bursts of...
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