A 2024 video on Four Works: Accountability at Marian Goodman Gallery, New York. The exhibition brought together works from the 1990s that respond directly to political events, exploring legacies of dissent and the codes and gestures through which politics is lived.

This video accompanied Dara Birnbaum, the survey exhibition at Osservatorio Fondazione Prada in Milan (April 13 – September 25, 2023). Birnbaum and curator Barbara London discuss the show and her career-long challenge to the conventions of television and mass media.

Streamed live on December 14, 2022, this panel celebrated the book The Human Condition: Media Art from the Kramlich Collection, I (Thames & Hudson, 2022). Birnbaum joins artist Shirin Neshat and curators Stuart Comer, Chrissie Iles, and Shannon Jackson, with a welcome from collector Pamela Kramlich.

A 2022 video from Marian Goodman Gallery on Reaction, Birnbaum’s first retrospective in the United States, at the Hessel Museum of Art, CCS Bard. The exhibition traced five decades of her deconstruction of media, from its technologies to its messages.

This (Virtual) Bass episode streamed on October 21, 2021, the 80th anniversary of Wonder Woman’s first comic-book appearance, and in honor of the recent acquisition of Birnbaum’s Technology/Transformation: Wonder Woman at The Bass in Miami Beach. Birnbaum and media art curator Barbara London discuss the history of their field, in a talk moderated by Tom Healy and titled after Birnbaum’s book Every TV Needs a Revolution.

In this short 2021 video from Serralves’ online series, curator Isabel Braga introduces Transmission Tower: Sentinel (1992), which is installed in the main hall of the Serralves Collection. The piece uses the armature of telecommunication (a Rohn steel transmission tower fitted with eight television screens) and juxtaposes three forms of political speech.

A 2021 CBS Miami news segment on The Bass in Miami Beach, where the museum marked Wonder Woman Day with the original Wonder Woman Lynda Carter, and the exhibition of Birnbaum’s Technology/Transformation: Wonder Woman (1978–79).

Birnbaum describes her installation “Tapestry: Elegy for Donna” (2005). Tapestry was featured in Birnbaum’s first major retrospective, The Dark Matter of Media Light, at S.M.A.K. in Ghent in 2019.

Recorded on July 23, 2019, this artist talk was given at the San Antonio Museum of Art, where Birnbaum’s work was featured in the exhibition Men of Steel, Women of Wonder. It was filmed by Art This Week for its Voices on Art series.

In this 2019 feature for Artforum, Birnbaum looks back on her life and work, from her architecture studies at Carnegie Mellon and formative years in Berkeley to the pioneering video practice that followed. “There was no way to talk back to the media,” she recalls.

In 2018, Birnbaum presented her work at Harvard’s Carpenter Center, followed by a conversation with art historian Benjamin H.D. Buchloh, a longtime theorist of her work and editor of Rough Edits.

This short film marked Birnbaum’s 2016 exhibition at Marian Goodman Gallery in Paris. With Psalm 29(30), Birnbaum asks the question: "Can suffering be portrayed in such a way that reflection can take place, in place of manipulated fear, anguish or anger?"

In this 2015 video presented by the MFA Fine Arts program at the School of Visual Arts in New York, Birnbaum, then a faculty member in the MFA Art Practice and MFA Fine Arts programs, talks about her work.

Filmed at Art Basel in Miami Beach on December 6, 2013, this conversation pairs Birnbaum with David Gryn, curator of the fair’s Film sector and founder of the London-based Artprojx.

Birnbaum appears in This Is Not a Dream (2013), a feature-length documentary directed by Gavin Butt and Ben Walters. The film traces the video revolution of the 1970s, and its impact on artists and performers across four decades of experimental and subversive work.

The Serpentine Gallery's Memory Marathon in London in 2012 was a two-day event held in the Herzog & de Meuron and Ai Weiwei Pavilion. Officiated by Hans Ulrich Obrist, the marathon brought artists and scientists together to discuss memory, archaeology, and historical recording. Birnbaum's discussion of Reverie featured Damnation of Faust: Wi/1-o'-the-Wisp (A Deceitful Goal) (1985).

To mark its 40th anniversary, Electronic Arts Intermix presented a week of artists’ videos on the MTV screen in Times Square on April 13–19, 2011. The program included Birnbaum’s Artbreak (1987), a 30-second spot she originally created for MTV Networks.

In this 2010 video, artist Dara Birnbaum discusses her work, Mirroring (1975), on view in "Off The Wall: Part 1—Thirty Performative Actions", with Whitney Museum of Art Curator Chrissie Iles. Birnbaum describes the exploration of identity in her early work.

In this 2022 episode of Heidi Zuckerman’s podcast, Birnbaum talks about joy, awakening to nature, Monet, how art can save lives, being a “video maker,” and her spiritual practice.

Recorded on March 22, 2022, at Marian Goodman Gallery New York, this conversation marked the New York launch of Arabesque, Birnbaum’s book-object for the D’ORO D’ART series.

Recorded live at e-flux on February 10, 2026, at the launch of e-flux Index #8, this episode features art historian and curator Piper Marshall reading her remembrance of Birnbaum.

May 2017 interview with Linda Yablonsky documents two days of intimate yet expansive conversations about Dara's early life growing up in Queens, her artistic practice, her social circle, and her politics.