Dara Birnbaum, Technology / Transformation : Wonder Woman
  • monograph
  • cloth boards with dust jacket
  • offset-printed
  • sewn bound
  • black-and-white & color
  • 21.8 x 15.5 cm.
  • 118 pp.
  • edition size unknown
  • unsigned and unnumbered
  • ISBN 9781846380662

Dara Birnbaum, Technology / Transformation : Wonder Woman

[Hardcover Edition]

Dara Birnbaum, T.J. Demos

Dara Birnbaum, Technology / Transformation : Wonder Woman

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Part of the "One Work" book series which presents a single work of art written about by a single author. "Opening with a prolonged salvo of fiery explosions accompanied by the warning cry of a siren, Dara Birnbaum's video Technology/Transformation: Wonder Woman (1978–79) is a concise, action-packed, and visually riveting video. During its seven-minute span we see, again and again, the transformation of the drab secretary Diana Prince into the super-heroic Wonder Woman. By isolating and repeating the moment of transformation—spinning figure, arms outstretched—Birnbaum unmasks the technology at the heart of the metamorphosis. In this illustrated examination of Birnbaum's video, T. J. Demos situates it in its historical context—among other developments in postmodernist appropriation, media analysis, and feminist politics—and explores the artist's pioneering attempts to open up the transformative abilities of video as a medium." -- publisher's statement.

Cambridge, MA: MIT Press,
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