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WORLD-CLASS ART

SIGNALS:
HOW VIDEO TRANSFORMED
THE WORLD, A MAJOR
EXHIBITION EXPLORING THE
INTERSECTION OF VIDEO,
ART, AND SOCIAL CHANGE
THIS COLLECTION-BASED MULTIMEDIA EXHIBITION FEATURES
WORKS BY JOHN AKOMFRAH, GRETCHEN BENDER, DARA
BIRNBAUM, TONY COKES, AMAR KANWAR, MARTA MINUJÍN, Harun Farocki and Andrei Ujica. Videograms of a Revolution. 1992. 16mm film
transferred to standard-definition video (color, sound). 106 min. The Museum
NAM JUNE PAIK, SONDRA PERRY, MARTINE SYMS, AND MORE
of Modern Art, New York. Given anonymously in honor of Anna Marie Shapiro.
© 2022 Harun Farocki Filmproduktion.

Offering a timely examination of video, art, and the public fundamentally altered the world. Signals is organized by
sphere, The Museum of Modern Art present Signals: How Stuart Comer, The Lonti Ebers Chief Curator of Media and
Video Transformed the World, a major exhibition on view Performance, and Michelle Kuo, The Marlene Hess Curator
in the Steven and Alexandra Cohen Center for Special of Painting and Sculpture.
Exhibitions. Through a diverse range of more than 70 Signals will investigate the ways in which artists such as
works, drawn primarily from MoMA’s collection, Signals John Akomfrah and Black Audio Film Collective, Gretchen
examines the ways in which artists have both championed Bender, Dara Birnbaum, Tony Cokes, Chto Delat, Song Dong,
and questioned video as an agent of social change - Harun Farocki, Amar Kanwar, Dana Kavelina, Marta Minujín,
from televised revolution to electronic democracy. The Carlos Motta, New Red Order, Nam June Paik, Tiffany Sia,
presentation positions video not as a traditional medium Martine Syms, Ming Wong, Nil Yalter, and many others
but as a transformational media network, one that has have used video over the past five decades to pose urgent

Installation view of Signals: How Video Transformed the World, on view at The
Museum of Modern Art, New York. Photo: Robert Gerhardt

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