Dara Birnbaum
- Introduction
- Dara Birnbaum (born 1946) is an American video and installation artist. Birnbaum entered the nascent field of video art in the mid-to-late 1970s challenging the gendered biases of the period and television’s ever-growing presence within the American household. Her oeuvre primarily addresses ideological and aesthetic features of mass media through the intersection of video art and television. She uses video to reconstruct television imagery using materials such as archetypal formats as quizzes, soap operas, and sports programmes. Her techniques involve the repetition of images and interruption of flow with text and music. She is also well known for forming part of the feminist art movement that emerged within video art in the mid-1970s. Landmarks, the public art program of The University of Texas at Austin, exhibited Technology/Transformation: Wonder Woman(1978-1979) and archived an essay dedicated to Birnbaum and her work on their website. Birnbaum lives and works in New York.
- Wikidata
- Q3702470
- Introduction
- Video artist known for her use of appropriated material.
- Nationality
- American
- Gender
- Female
- Roles
- Artist, Installation Artist, Sculptor, Video Artist
- Names
- Dara Birnbaum, Dana Birnbaum
- Ulan
- 500034772
Exhibitions
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Theater of Operations: The Gulf Wars 1991–2011
Nov 3, 2019–Mar 1, 2020
MoMA PS1
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201: Public Images
Ongoing
MoMA
Collection gallery
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A BIT OF MATTER: The MoMA PS1 Archives, 1976–2000
Apr 9–Sep 10, 2017
MoMA PS1
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Greater New York
Oct 11, 2015–Mar 7, 2016
MoMA PS1
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Cut to Swipe
Oct 11, 2014–Jun 21, 2015
MoMA
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Dara Birnbaum has
18 exhibitionsonline.
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Dara Birnbaum Kiss the Girls: Make Them Cry 1979
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Dara Birnbaum Technology/Transformation: Wonder Woman 1978-79
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Dara Birnbaum Pop-Pop Video 1980
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Dara Birnbaum Pop-Pop Video: General Hospital/Olympic Women's Speed Skating 1980
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Dara Birnbaum Pop-Pop Video: Kojak/Wang 1980
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Dara Birnbaum PM Magazine 1982
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