Lines of Resolution: Drawing and the Small Screen
The Menil Drawing Institute’s 2022 Research Fellow, Anna Lovatt, delivers a lecture that explores the relationships between drawing, television, and video in art of the 1950s to the 1980s. She considers how artists brought drawing into a critical dialogue with the small screen from Nam June Paik’s Zen for TV, 1963, to Dennis Oppenheim’s A Feedback Situation, 1971, and the Video Drawings Howardena Pindell began in 1973. By rewiring television sets, mapping cybernetic feedback loops, or using the static charge of early television sets to adhere drawings to their screens, artists explored the graphic possibilities of electronic media.
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