Signals: How Video Transformed the World - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1633451232 ISBN 13: 9781633451230

Publisher: The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2023

Synopsis

Signals: How Video Transformed the World aims to renew and revise our understanding of art and video, posing video not as a traditional medium but as a pervasive and fluid media network that is thoroughly global, social, and interactive: a means of politics.

About this title

About the Author

Stuart Comer is the Lonti Ebers Chief Curator of Media and Performance at The Museum of Modern Art.

Michelle Kuo is the Marlene Hess Curator of Painting and Sculpture at The Museum of Modern Art.

Erika Balsom is a senior lecturer in Film Studies and Liberal Arts at King’s College London.

Aria Dean is an artist, writer, and curator living and working in Los Angeles and New York.

David Joselit is Professor of Art, Film and Visual Studies at Harvard University.

Tiffany Sia is an artist, filmmaker and independent film producer.

Ravi Sundaram is Senior Fellow, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi.

From the Back Cover

Having become widely accessible as a consumer technology in the 1960s, video is ever-present today―on our phones and our screens, defining new spaces and experiences, shaping our ideas and politics, and spreading disinformation, documentation, evidence, fervor. Signals: The Politics of Video charts the ways in which artists have both championed and questioned the promise of video, revealing a history that has been planetary, critical, and activist from its very beginnings. The Museum of Modern Art has been at the forefront of bringing video into museums―pioneering the collection, conservation, and definition of a new artistic medium. Signals aims to renew and revise our understanding of art and video, both within and outside the museum.

A companion to the exhibition, this catalogue―the Museum’s first major publication on the subject in twenty-five years―includes an introductory essay by the curators and six thematic texts by leading scholars and artists that investigate the range of artistic engagements with video, media, and the public sphere. Here, video is posed not as a traditional medium but as a pervasive and fluid media network that is thoroughly global, social, and interactive: a means of politics.

Edition details

• Publisher: The Museum of Modern Art, New York
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1633451232
• ISBN 13: 9781633451230
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 200
• Editor: Kuo Michelle, Comer Stuart