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Categories: Video
Keywords: Politics
Relevant passages:
Inke Arns «Social Technologies
Deconstruction, subversion, and the utopia of democratic communication»
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 Magnet TV 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
«Mayor Lindsay»
One reason Paik went from Germany to New York was to obtain access to the latest technologies. For a while he continued to work with modified TV sets, but in 1965 bought one of the first videotape machines, the Sony Portapack with open tape reels. Although it was not possible to edit or produce effects with the primitive black-and-white equipment, Paik got round the problem by interfering directly with the open tape reel and 'manually' manipulating the tape. The constant repetition and distortion he produced in this way transformed a few seconds of TV footage of the New York Mayor Lindsay into a 5-minute video piece.
