Born in the USA, 1946

Her works represent influential and innovative contributions to the contemporary discourse on art and television. In her videos and multimedia installations, Birnbaum subverts, critiques or deconstructs the power of mass media images to define cultural and historical mythologies. In his groundbreaking video works of the late 1970s and early 1980s, he used tactics of deconstruction and appropriation to dismantle the television codes of representation, drawing on the medium’s own vocabulary and returning it to them in the form of critique. Birnbaum declared that he aspired “to define the language of video art in relation to the institution of television.