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Siebren Versteeg, CC, 2003
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Some of the artists’ interventions
are hostile
(as in Burden’s work); others are more collaborative,
as demonstrated by Christian Jankowski’s
2001 broadcast with a Baptist televangelist, shown
on public television. In still other instances, an
artist’s engagement with broadcasting involves
the critical reuse of previously aired material, such
as Antoni Muntadas’s analyses of the structures
and presentations of newscasting during the
Cold War, or Dara The works in Broadcast include single-channel monitor-based videos, variable-format video projections, photography, installations, and a few interactive broadcasting projects that are adaptable to each venue. Accompanied by a brochure and cell phone audio tour, the exhibition is curated by Irene Hofmann, executive director of the Contemporary Museum in Baltimore. Exhibition Itinerary Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, Maryland Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit, Michigan Pratt Manhattan Gallery, New York, New York AVAILABLE The
Ronna and Eric Hoffman Gallery of Contemporary Art, Lewis & Clark College The Picker Art Gallery, Colgate
University, Hamilton, New York
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Broadcast explores
the ways in which artists
since the late 1960s have engaged with, critiqued,
and inserted themselves into official channels of
broadcast television and radio. By co-opting the
sounds, images, and presentation strategies of
our culture’s dominant forms of mass media,
they reveal the mechanisms and power structures
of broadcasting systems, and challenge their
authority and influence. The exhibition spans
four decades of work by an international group of
artists. It begins with Nam June Paik’s manipulated
news footage from the late 1960s; moves on
to Chris Burden’s infamous 1971 hostage-taking of
a TV host at knifepoint; then presents
TVTV’s
iconoclastic broadcast from the floor of the 1972
Republican convention and a 1980 work made by
Doug Hall, Chip Lord, and Jody Procter as artists-in-residence at
a Texas news station. More recent works in the exhibition include
an installation about aliens by Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle, the
pirate FM radio-station installation that Gregory Green
initiated in the basement of his New York gallery
in 1995, neuroTransmitter’s live radio transmission,
and Siebren Versteeg’s manipulations of
recent CNN broadcasts, which starts off with a contextual scene showing
all the artifice that
comprises a television news set. 
Birnbaum’s incorporation of
archival media reports on the 1977 kidnapping
and execution of German industrialist Hanns
Martin Schleyer by the Baader-Meinhof group.
Whether appropriating the conventions and programs
of broadcast journalism, or engaging in a
live TV or radio broadcast themselves, the artists
represented here compel us to look more closely
at this dominant force in our culture.