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SIGNALS:

THE POLITICS OF VIDEO
The Museum of Modern Art

Offering a timely examination of art, politics, and the public
sphere, The Museum of Modern Art will present Signals: The
Politics of Video, a major exhibition that will be on view in the
Steven and Alexandra Cohen Center for Special Exhibitions
Dara Birnbaum. Tiananmen Square: Break-In Transmission. 1990. Five-
from September 13, 2020, through January 3, 2021. Having channel color video, four-channels of stereo sound, surveillance switcher,
become widely accessible as a consumer technology in and custom-designed support system. Dimensions variable. Installation
the 1960s, video is ever-present today—on phones, on view: Dara Birnbaum, Marian Goodman Gallery, London, November 8,
2018–January 12, 2019. Courtesy of the artist and Marian Goodman
computer screens, defining new spaces and experiences, Gallery.
shaping our ideas and politics, and spreading disinformation,
documentation, evidence, fervor. Coinciding with the US Peter Callas. NEO-GEO: An American Purchase. 1989. Video (color, sound).
9:17 minutes. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Acquired through the
presidential election in fall 2020, this collection-based exhibition generosity of The Contemporary Arts Council of the Museum of Modern
Art. © 2020 Peter Callas. Courtesy Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York

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