"Edited at EAI”: Dara Birnbaum Screening and Conversation with media artistDara Birnbaum and editors Matt Danowksi, Pat Ivers and Ann Volkes Please join us fora special evening featuring media artist Dara Birnbaum in conversation withformer EAI editors Matt Danowski, Pat Ivers, and Ann Volkes, moderated by LoriZippay. Birnbaum, one of the most important and influential artists working invideo and multi-media installation, will discuss the creative processessurrounding analogue video editing and EAI's “laboratory-studio” atmosphere ofthe early 1980s with editors whom she worked with at EAI. A selection ofBirnbaum's video works from that period, including Pop-Pop Video: Kojak/Wang (1980); the rarely seen New Music Shorts (1981), with musiciansRadio Fire Fight and Glenn Branca; Remy/GrandCentral: Trains and Boats and Planes (1980); Fire!/Hendrix (1982), and PMMagazine/Acid Rock (1982), will be screened and discussed in depth. Organized in conjunction with EAI's45th anniversary, the "Edited at EAI" series highlights ahistorically significant but less well-known area of EAI's programs: EAI'sEditing Facility for artists, one of the first such creative workspaces forvideo in the United States. Thursday, September 22, 2016 6:30pm Electronic Arts Intermix 535 West 22nd Street, 5th Fl. New York, NY 10011 www.eai.org Admission $7, Students$5 Free for EAI Members RSVP:
[email protected] Dara Birnbaum’s groundbreaking video works of the late 1970s and early 1980s, including Technology Transformation/Wonder Woman (1978) and Pop Pop Video (1980), were distinctive in their use of popular television as source material and appropriation as a strategy to deconstruct and reassemble meaning.