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Relevant passages:
Inke Arns «Interaction, Participation, Networking: Art and Telecommunication»
Works by Nam June Paik:
Action with a violin on a string (staged during «Exposition of Music – Electronic Television»)
Baroque Laser Buddha German Pavilion: Marco Polo documenta-performance Electronic Art II Etude for Piano Exposition of Music – Electronic Television Global Groove Good Morning, Mr. Orwell Hommage à John Cage: Music for Tape Recorder and Piano I-Ching/Et-Ching Kuba-TV Mayor Lindsay McLuhan Caged (in Electronic Art II) One for Violin Solo Participation TV performance in the Ramsbott home Random Access Music: Exposition of Music – Electronic Television Robot K-456 Schallplatten-Schaschlik: Exposition of Music – Electronic Television Simple As Boring As Possible Traitor, you left fluxus (Postcard to Nam June Paik) Triangle tv with microphone TV Set for your Mind TV Story Board TV-Buddha TV-Garden Primitive Music Video-Tape Monthly Magazine Wrap around the World Yellow Peril ! Zen for Film Zen for Head
Nam June Paik
«Magnet TV»
«Magnet TV» was developed relatively late by Paik. By then he had already engaged in numerous complex operations on the inner-workings of television sets, but was yet to consider how magnets applied from outside were also well-suited to altering the electromagnetic flow of electrons.[...] At first Paik worked with only a horseshoe-shaped electromagnet and a degausser, used by technicians to deactivate the television screen’s state of being charged.[...] The magnet’s force of attraction hindered the cathode rays from filling the screen’s rectangular surface. This pushed the field of horizontal lines upward thus creating baffling forms within the magnet’s gravitational field. If the magnet maintained its position, the picture remained stabile—apart from minimal changes caused by fluctuations in the flow of electricity. Moving the magnet caused endless variations on the forms.
(Source: Edith Decker, Paik Video, Cologne, 1988, p. 60ff.)
