A critical examination of Dara Birnbaum s action-packed and riveting video of Wonder Woman s transformations. Opening with a prolonged salvo of fiery explosions accompanied by the warning cry of a siren Dara Birnbaum s video Technology/Transformation: Wonder Woman (1978-79) is a concise action-packed and visually riveting video. During its seven-minute span we see again and again the transformation of the drab secretary Diana Prince into the super-heroic Wonder Woman. By isolating and repeating the moment of transformation--spinning figure arms outstretched--Birnbaum unmasks the technology at the heart of the metamorphosis. In this illustrated examination of Birnbaum s video T. J. Demos situates it in its historical context--among other developments in postmodernist appropriation media analysis and feminist politics--and explores the artist s pioneering attempts to open up the transformative abilities of video as a medium. Demos examines Birnbaum s influence on such artists as Douglas Gordon Pierre Huyghe Philippe Parreno and Candice Breitz and the turn toward postproduction procedures --the mobilization of existing imagery for innovative uses. He also reveals a fascinating historical shift in the reception of Birnbaum s work: a move from an emphasis on her deconstruction of mass culture ideology to an appreciation of her creative use of consumer imagery.