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Categories: Interactive Environment
Keywords: Interaction | Voice
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 Magnet TV Mayor Lindsay McLuhan Caged (in Electronic Art II) One for Violin Solo 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
«Participation TV»
In 1963, «Participation TV I» passed the qualifying rounds at the «Exposition of Music—Electronic Television» exhibition in Wuppertal [where, in the case of a few devices, acoustic signals already determined the television image]. [«Participation TV I»] concerns a purely acoustic-oriented type of «Participation TV,» with an integrated microphone. The later version serves a television showing in the middle of its screen a colored bundle of lines which explosively spread out to form bizarre-looking line formations the moment someone speaks into the microphone or produces any other type of sound. Depending on the sound’s inherent quality or volume, the signals are intensified by a sound-frequency amplifier to produce an endless variety of line formations which never seem to repeat themselves or be in any way predictable.
(Source: Edith Decker, Paik Video, Cologne, 1988, p. 64)
