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Dara Birnbaum Books + Resources

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Dara Birnbaum

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Gallery hours Tues.-Sun. 12-6pm. Free and open to the public.

When you visit the Dara Birnbaum: Journey exhibition, stop by our mini library of books and resources about Dara Birnbaum's art and career. This resource table is part of a collaboration with Lydia Rosenberg, Miller ICA Visitor Services Coordinator and Jill Chisnell, CMU’s Art Librarian to offer extended art education through a wonderful selection of books, essays, interviews, and other critical writings specially organized to accompany the exhibition. Visit in person or take a look at the selection below.

Selected Resources

Video: Dara Birnbaum on Her Life and Art. Includes her training in architecture at Carnegie Mellon University and how that led her to an incredible career in video art. Art Forum, 2014
Interview: They Come from Another World! : Dara Birnbaum. Elephant Magazine, 2017
Interview: Dara Birnbaum by Barbara Schröder & Karen Kelley. BOMB, 2008
Interview: Dara Birnbaum In The Studio by Lauren Cornell for Art in America, 2016
In Conversation: Dara Birnbaum and Cory Arcangel. Birnbaum and Arcangel discuss overlaps and disparities in their approach to working with the technology of daily life. Art Forum
Critical Writing: Allegorical Procedures: Appropriation and Montage in Contemporary Art by Benjamin Buchloh. Art Forum, 1982

Selected Books

Rough Edits: Popular Image Video Works 1977-1980, Dara Birnbaum, edited by Benjamin H.D. Buchloh, Nova Scotia Pamphlets Series, 1987
Dara Birnbaum : the dark matter of media light / S.M.A.K.-Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, April 4-Sept. 6, 2009
Dara Birnbaum: Technology/Transformation: Wonder Woman Afterall, Demos, TJ. 2010.
Dara Birnbaum: Note(s): Work(ing) Process(es) Re: Concerns (That Take On / Deal With) Foreword by Alex Kitnick.
Dara Birnbaum: REACTION