When
video technology was still relatively new, Nam June Paik was able to reshape
its purpose to fit his artistic ambitions. Paik’s interests lied in
performance, and he believed video could enhance the “expressive capacity and
conceptual power” of performance. He would put televisions in odd places (like
outdoors in the grass) or arrange them to form different shapes (like a robot).
Various videos would be playing on these televisions, sometimes making no sense
in the context in which they were being played. This is so in his piece where a
television playing some kind of fish tank video was placed inside a shirt.
Paik
has also done pieces where instead of a television playing a video, he used
lasers to project moving images. These projections were displayed on different
surfaces, such as water, scrims, and sculptures that were filled with smoke.
Paik was really the forerunner in turning video into an art medium. Through his
innovative works, Paik made people view videos and television in a whole new
way.
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