Signals

Name: Signals
Brand: Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd
SKU: 9781633451230
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How Video Transformed the World

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Signals: The Politics of Video explores the transformative role of video as an artistic medium and political tool from its rise in the 1960s to today. This comprehensive catalogue complements the Museum of Modern Art's exhibition by tracing how artists have interrogated, utilised, and redefined video in a global and interactive media landscape. Through essays and critical texts, the book reveals video not merely as a traditional art form but as a dynamic network shaping culture, activism, and public discourse.
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This book is ideal for readers interested in contemporary art, video media, media studies, political activism through art, and the history of digital culture. It appeals to art scholars, students, curators, and anyone seeking a deeper understanding of video as a powerful political and cultural medium.

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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, fervour.

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.

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Praised for its ambitious and thought-provoking approach, Signals has been described as "the most perplexing exhibition of the year" (Jason Farago, The New York Times) and lauded for addressing video art as a political force (Dennis Lim, E-flux). Reviews highlight its wide-ranging material from six decades, showcasing how artists have used video to create, critique, and disrupt media networks (Guardian). It offers insights that inspire viewers to engage actively rather than passively with video content (Alex Greenberger, ARTnews).

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781633451230

Publisher: Museum of Modern Art

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 30 March 2023

Country: United States

Imprint: Museum of Modern Art

Illustration: 140 Illustrations

Contributors:

Text by Erika Balsom
Edited by Michelle Kuo
Edited by Stuart Comer
Text by Aria Dean
Text by David Joselit
Text by Tiffany Sia
Text by Ravi Sundaram
Contributions by Peter Oleksik
Edited by Michelle Kuo

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 202.0mm

Height: 254.0mm

Weight: 720g

Pages: 200

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Arts & Culture Education & Reference Non-Fiction

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.