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will reveal the ways in which artists have both championed and engagement with video from the 1960s on—as well as
questioned the promise of video. Signals poses video not as a select loans. This array of approximately 30 works will
traditional medium but as a pervasive and fluid media network enable audiences to experience video art’s varied viewing
that is thoroughly global, social, and interactive: a means of conditions, sites of display, and global reach, from closed-circuit
politics. experiments to viral video, from agitation to persuasion, from
Signals’ focus on investigations into video, art, and politics forensic evidence to alternative facts. It will show how artists
will reveal a history that has been critical and activist from use video to probe society, communication, and democracy.
its very beginnings. It will highlight exemplary works from Organized by Stuart Comer, The Lonti Ebers Chief Curator of
the collection—many newly acquired and never before seen Media and Performance, and Michelle Kuo, The Marlene Hess
here, others demonstrating the Museum’s groundbreaking Curator of Painting and Sculpture.

Martine Syms. Lessons I–CLXXX. 2014–18. 180 videos (color, sound). 90 Hito Steyerl. How Not to Be Seen: A Fucking Didactic Educational .MOV File.
minutes (30 seconds each). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Fund 2013. Video (color, sound). 14 minutes. The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
for the Twenty-First Century. © 2020 Martine Syms Committee on Media and Performance Art Funds. © 2020 Hito Steyerl.

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