Will-O'-The-Wisp, 1985

Born in New York in 1946, Dara Birnbaum has worked as a video artist since the end of the 1970s. In her early work she used the expressive media used in television production, from soap operas to commercials, as her subject matter.

For its wide breadth as a medium, it is television, in fact, that is the principle purveyor of mass culture, and Birnbaum intervenes on its content to awaken often hidden ideological messages. The artist's process often consists in fragmenting sequencing norms and repeating certain poignant moments.