Art History From Home:
Technology, Fantasy, and Popular Culture
Technology, Fantasy, and Popular Culture
Thurs, June 4, 2020
12 pm
Dara Birnbaum, Technology/Transformation: Wonder Woman, 1978-79. Video, color, sound, 5:50 min. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the Film, Video, and New Media Committee 2009.22. © Dara Birnbaum; courtesy Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York
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This series of online talks by the Whitney’s Joan Tisch Teaching Fellows highlights works in the Museum's collection and recent exhibitions to illuminate critical topics in American art from 1900 to the present. During each thirty-minute session, participants are invited to comment and ask questions through a moderated chat.
In the twenty-first century, we find ourselves in increasingly media-saturated and mediated realities. This session explores how artists such as Dara Birnbaum, Jordan Wolfson, and Nam June Paik have drawn on popular culture to address the changing nature of the self within these experiences. We will consider a range of artistic mediums—from photography to video installations to games—to explore technology’s role in both limiting and generating new kinds of agency for art-makers and viewers alike.
Xin Wang is a Joan Tisch Teaching Fellow at the Whitney Museum and a Ph.D. candidate in modern and contemporary art at The Institute of Fine Arts, NYU. She is the curator of numerous exhibitions in the U.S., Europe, and Asia. Her latest writings have appeared in Art in America, Art Agenda, and Wallpaper (Chinese edition). She is currently planning an exhibition that explores Asian Futurisms for The Museum of Chinese in America in New York City.