Photo of collection object Technology/Transformation: Wonder Woman 1978/9
Birnbaum, Dara. Technology/Transformation: Wonder Woman 1978/9, NTSC Digi-Beta Master, color, stereo sound, 5 minutes 30 seconds, Gift of Elizabeth A. Sackler, 2013.23. © Dara Birnbaum © artist or artist's estate.

Technology/Transformation: Wonder Woman 1978/9

Dara Birnbaum

American, born 1946

Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art

Groundbreaking video artist Dara Birnbaum was an early and prescient appropriator of television clichés and pop culture icons. In Technology/Transformation: Wonder Woman, she critiques media representations of women by repurposing footage from the well-known weekly television series, isolating and repeating the character’s signature movements of power transformation. Displaying the lyrics to “Wonder Woman Disco,” released in 1978 by the Wonderland Disco Band, Birnbaum highlights the song’s sexual subtext and lays bare its double entendres.
Maker/Artist
Birnbaum, Dara
Classification
Media Art
Formatted Medium
NTSC Digi-Beta Master, color, stereo sound, 5 minutes 30 seconds
Accession Number
2013.23
Credit Line
Gift of Elizabeth A. Sackler
Rights Statement
© artist or artist's estate
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