Dara Birnbaum
Dara Birnbaum's provocative video works are influential and innovative contributions to the contemporary discourse on art and television. In her videotapes and multi-media installations, Birnbaum applies both low-end and high-end video technology to subvert, critique or deconstruct the power of mass media images and gestures to define mythologies of culture, history and memory. full biography
Bibliography
Dara Birnbaum. Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna: Verlag Ritter Klagenfurt, 1995.
Dara Birnbaum: The Dark Matter of Media Light. Ghent: S.M.A.K., Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst; Porto: Fundação de Serralves; in association with DelMonico Books·Prestel, 2011.
Seeing Time: Selections from the Pamela and Richard Kramlich Collection of Media Art. San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1999.
Birnbaum, Dara. Dara Birnbaum, Rough Edits: Popular Image Video Works 1977-1980. Canada: The Press of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, 1987.
Buchloh, Benjamin. "Dara Birnbaum: Allegorical Procedures." Medij v mediju/Media in Media Ljubljana, Slovenia: 1996. pp. 46-55 + 149,150
Demos, TJ. Dara Birnbaum's Technology Transformation/Wonder Woman. London: Afterall Books, 2010.
Detterer, Gabriele. Art Recollection, Artists' Interviews and Statements in the Nineties. Florence: Danilo Montanari & Exit & Zona Archives Editori, 1997.
Ross, David. "Truth or Consequences: American Television and Video Art." Video Culture: A Critical Investigation. Ed. John Hanhardt, Rochester: Studies Workshop Press, 1986. pp. 169-170, 174-178.
