1. Dara Birnbaum was born on 1946 and is an American video and installation artist.
15 Facts About Dara Birnbaum
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Dara Birnbaum uses video to reconstruct television imagery using as materials such archetypal formats as quizzes, soap operas, and sports programmes.
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Dara Birnbaum is well known for forming part of the feminist art movement that emerged within video art in the mid-1970s.
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Dara Birnbaum is the daughter of architect Philip Birnbaum and pathologist Mary Birnbaum.
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In 1973 Dara Birnbaum attained a BFA in painting from the San Francisco Art Institute.
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In 1974 Dara Birnbaum moved to Florence for a year and was introduced to video art by the Centro Diffusione Grafica, a gallery that encouraged its artists to explore video very early on.
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Shortly after her return to New York City in 1975, Dara Birnbaum met Dan Graham, an artist, writer and curator who greatly impacted her artistic development.
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Dara Birnbaum introduced her to Screen, a British film theory journal, which provided a critical analysis of mainstream cinema during the 1970s.
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Dara Birnbaum works distributed by the Electronic Arts Intermix include:.
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Dara Birnbaum is the first artist who participated in the D'ORO D'ART Project, for the creation of books that contain digital art.
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Dara Birnbaum took on the challenge of specially transforming her four-channel video, Arabesque to a single-channel video for the book.
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Dara Birnbaum brought together selections from Youtube clips of performances of Robert Schumann's Arabesque, Opus 18, and a singular clip of Clara Schumann's Romanze 1, Opus 11.
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Dara Birnbaum juxtaposed these clips with still images made from footage of the 1947 film about the Schumanns, Song of Love, which tellingly features only Robert Schumann's Arabesque, Opus 18.
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Dara Birnbaum is the recipient of an Award in Art by the American Academy of Arts and Letters ; the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship ; The Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center Arts Residency ; the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant ; and a United States Artists Fellow award.
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Dara Birnbaum was the first woman to receive the Maya Deren Award from the American Film Institute for video, presented in 1987.