The New Television by Rachel Churner - ISBN: 9781949484113
Hardcover
Video art’s radical past informs today’s critical, creative television landscape.

The New Television

Video After Television

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  • Hardcover

    464 pages

  • Release Date

    14 January 2025

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Summary

On the rich history of video art and its enduring relevance to today’s artistic and critical practices.

The New Television delves into the rich history of video art, reexamining the pivotal Open Circuits conference held at MoMA in 1974 and exploring its enduring relevance to today’s artistic and critical practices. Open Circuits was an important event in establishing video art in American museums and articulated a range of conflicting teloses for the medium, some which materi…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781949484113
ISBN-10:1949484114
Author:Rachel Churner, Rebecca Cleman
Publisher:No Place Press
Imprint:No Place Press
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:464
Release Date:14 January 2025
Weight:567g
Dimensions:248mm x 171mm
About The Author

Rachel Churner

Rachel Churner is the director of the Carolee Schneemann Foundation. She is also an art critic and editor, whose writings have appeared in Artforum and October magazine, among other publications. She was a recipient of the 2018 Creative Capital/Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant and is the editor of multiple books, including Jacqueline Humphries- jH_x03A9_1-) (2022); Yvonne Rainer- Revisions (no place press, 2020), Hans Haacke (MIT Press, 2015), and two volumes of writings by film historian Annette Michelson (MIT Press, 2017 and 2020). Churner is a faculty member at Eugene Lang College at The New School, New York.

Rebecca Cleman is Executive Director of Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI) and a writer. She has programmed screenings and special projects for such venues as the International House Philadelphia; the Museum of Art and Design, Anthology Film Archives, and Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York City; and the Julia Stoschek Collection, Germany; and organized or co-organized many events for EAI, including a panel discussion on the films of David Wojnarowicz and a conversation between Hilton Als and The Wooster Group’s director and co-founder Elizabeth LeCompte.

Tyler Maxin is curator at Blank Forms. He was previously the Communications and Special Projects Associate at Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI). His writing has appeared in publications including Artforum, BOMB, and Film Comment.

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