Birnbaum & Arcangel
This month in Artforum: “Dara Birnbaum and Cory Arcangel: In Conversation.” If the manipulation of popular imagery, once the purview of avant-garde practice, is now common among homemade videos placed online, then what new obstacles and opportunities await artists working in these modes? Birnbaum—pioneering video artist and subject of a pivotal retrospective next month at SMAK in Ghent, Belgium—sits down with media artist and programmer Cory Arcangel to compare notes on art in light of widespread appropriation and increasingly fragmented audiences.
