Dara
Birnbaum
Dara
Birnbaum
Birnbaum
American, born in 1946
Video art pioneer Dana Birnbaum questions the workings and influence of the moving image by reusing sequences from film and television. She seeks to “slow down the technological speed of television” and “disrupt its imagery and alter its visual syntax” in order to better question its ideology.
Her art, innovative at the time and since seen in different iterations on numerous occasions, was in step with 1970s American protest movements and denounced social models promoted by television. Birnbaum was the first to use the “video wall”, which immerses viewers into the very heart of the image in the exhibition space and allows them to physically experience the endless flow of images.
Her work was exhibited for the first time by the Pinault Collection during the 2008 “Passage du temps” (“Passage of Time”) show at the Tri Postal in Lille.
Her art, innovative at the time and since seen in different iterations on numerous occasions, was in step with 1970s American protest movements and denounced social models promoted by television. Birnbaum was the first to use the “video wall”, which immerses viewers into the very heart of the image in the exhibition space and allows them to physically experience the endless flow of images.
Her work was exhibited for the first time by the Pinault Collection during the 2008 “Passage du temps” (“Passage of Time”) show at the Tri Postal in Lille.
