PM Magazine/Acid Rock is a spectacle of visuals and sound, a delirious collage of appropriated TV imagery and dynamic pop music. The introduction to the nightly television broadcast PM Magazine and a segment of a Wang computer commercial are the sources for the highly edited and computerized visual score. To the recomposed music of the Doors' L.A. Woman, a continuous flow of emblematic images of self-satisfaction — the American Dream or America's dreamstate — assault the viewer. Stereotypical TV gestures and icons of leisure and consumerism (ice skater, cheerleader, a little girl licking an ice cream cone) are framed and re-framed, slowed and accelerated, colorized and abstracted. In a frenetic deconstruction of mass media ideology, Birnbaum recontextualizes and subverts television's representations of consumerism and sexuality.

PM Magazine/Acid Rock was originally produced as one of four simultaneous video/music channels for the installation of the same name at Documenta 7 in Kassel, Germany.