Virtual Play: The Double Direct Monkey Wrench in Black's Machinery
1984 · Video (color, sound)
82 min.
Museum of Modern Art
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Steve Fagin
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Video from Vancouver to San Diego
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1985
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Steve Fagin works in video and installation to interrogate communication systems and their social mechanisms. His practice treats language and technology as documentary subjects, examining how information circulates and shapes collective experience. Working since the 1970s, Fagin has developed a methodical approach to media that positions the artwork as a site of communication failure and repair.
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