Pop-pop video : [videorecording] Kojak/Wang / by Dara Birnbaum. [1980]

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Pop-pop video : [videorecording] Kojak/Wang / by Dara Birnbaum. [1980]

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Pop-pop video takes a shootout from the television show Kojak and extends the shot and counter-shot into a potentially endless battle. In the original TV fragment, images, gestures and actions rebound off one another like the echoes of repeated bursts of gunfire. Birnbaum compares gunfire with the beams of laser light from a computer in a Wang commercial, connecting destruction and violence with the products of advancing technology.

1 videocassette of 1 (U-Matic) (3 min.) : sd., col. ; 3/4 in. original.

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Birnbaum, Dara

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Long Beach museum of art

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The Long Beach Museum of Art (LBMA) was among the first to focus on video as an artistic medium, spurring similar efforts throughout the United States. Beginning in 1974 the museum began collecting and exhibiting video art, later also actively encouraging the development of video art by co-producing projects and offering editing facilities to artists in its Video Annex. The museum's innovative approaches to the display of video art included several experiments with broadcast and cable television...