Before Facebook, reality TV and closed-circuit television cameras feeding YouTube an endless array of “gotcha” moments, there were the artists. Decades before surveillance and self-surveillance became the new pop culture, artists were using emerging technologies, from the video camera to the hidden microphone, to explore and critique.
In this excerpt from her new memoir, influential artist Gathie Falk describes her early childhood, her first art lessons, and why she dropped out of school.
Aruna D'Souza's forthcoming book Whitewalling: Art, Race & Protest in 3 Acts reviews three incidents in the long and troubled relationship between race and the art world.