What makes a pop icon a role model? Video artist Dara Birnbaum asks this question of Wonder Woman, the TV and movie character based on the DC Comics superhero. Birnbaum’s provocative artworks use high- and low-end video technology to distill mythologies of culture, history, and memory embedded in American mass media. She deconstructs familiar tropes - putting popular icons or familiar genres in a new context – while maintaining the structural grammar of television (reverse shot, cross-cut, inserts). In Technology/ Transformation, Birnbaum appropriates imagery from the Wonder Woman TV series, focusing on the character’s transformation from human to superhero while spinning. However, her accelerated rotation occasionally feels endless and at times fragmented. With cuts, repetitions, and the overlaid sound track from the song Wonder Woman in Discoland, 1978 (Wonderland Disco Band), Birnbaum disrupts passive viewing and challenges viewers to make sense of what they see. Denying the viewer the traditional narrative formula that always ends in resolution, Birnbaum exposes the link between power and sexuality that superhero figures almost subconsciously reinforce. She thereby draws attention to gender stereotypes and political bias in network television. Technology/Transformation originally aired on a cable station opposite the broadcast of the actual Wonder Woman television series (1975–1979), which featured actress Lynda Carter.