Note: If you see this text you use a browser which does not support usual Web-standards. Therefore the design of Media Art Net will not display correctly. Contents are nevertheless provided. For greatest possible comfort and full functionality you should use one of the recommended browsers.
 
Dara Birnbaum «Technology / Transformation: Wonder Woman»
Dara Birnbaum, «Technology / Transformation: Wonder Woman», 1976
©


 
Dara Birnbaum «Technology / Transformation: Wonder Woman»Dara Birnbaum «Technology / Transformation: Wonder Woman» | play video
United States | 5' 41" | Edition / Production: Devlin Pruductions INC. | Archive / Collection: ZKM Videosammlung, Karlsruhe
 

 Dara Birnbaum
«Technology / Transformation: Wonder Woman»

A stutter-step progression of «extended moments» unmasks the technological «miracle» of Wonder Woman's transformation, playing on the psychological transformation of a television product. Birnbaum considers this tape an «altered state» that «renders the viewer capable of re-examining those looks which on the surface seem so banal that even the super-natural transformation of a secretary into a »Wonder Woman« is reduced to a burst of blinding light and a turn of the body - a child's play of rhythmical devices inserted within the morose belligerence of the fodder that is our average television diet.»

 

ZKM Videosammlung