TV Commune
Nam June Paik Art Center
Paiknamjune-ro 10 Sanggal-dong Giheung-gu,
Yongin-si Gyeonggi-do,
446-905 Korea
This idea is suggested in Paik’s four-hour live TV program ‘Video Commune’ broadcast through Boston’s WGBH in 1970, in which he inserted a music program of Japan’s MBS into his video art. To let American viewers watch the Asian TV program in their living room was a pioneering enterprise in an age when satellite technology was not yet widely available. By art historical examinations of Paik’s experimental televisions and his projects in collaboration with American public broadcasting stations such as WGBH and W-Net, this exhibition seeks to think about the notions of ‘interaction’, ‘interface’ and ‘intervention’ that could take place in different ‘communes’ of and with television.
The exhibition TV Commune also includes the interventions in and arguments about TV by contemporary artists of today. In addition to the historical works by Nam June Paik and his contemporaries such as Dara Birnbaum, David Cronenberg, Ant Farm, Hyun Ki Park and TVTV, what will be on show are the pieces by artists living and working today including Martin Arnold, Tae Bum Ha, Heungsoon Im, Yeondoo Jung, Gabriel Lester, Christelle Lheureux, June Bum Park and Wong Hoy Cheong. There will be also works of artists who belong to ‘Souvenirs from Earth’, a web/cable TV station for video art in France, which serves as a platform for an artist’s channel.
With the termination of analog TV broadcasting going on across the globe, there are a lot of changes in process in the media environment, and this exhibition will become an opportunity to reflect on how TV has influenced our way of life and to search for a new relationship with it in the digital age. In connection with the exhibition, an international symposium dedicated to the issues of television and art will be held in October 2011. The Nam June Paik Art Center this autumn will become a lively platform where the full implications of television in art and society can be investigated from various angles.
Curator: Chaeyoung Lee
[RELATED PROGRAM]
International Symposium Gift of Nam June Paik 4
TELEVISION, de- inter- trans-
1:00–5:30pm, Friday 7th–Saturday 8th October 2011
SBS Hall (13F, SBS Broadcasting Center, Mok-dong, Seoul)
Television is evolving to become like a kind of organism in the current milieu of new media. This international symposium looks into the ways Nam June Paik insightfully explored the changing relationships between television and our perception of the world. What characterizes Paik’s artistic experimental televisions is ‘to defamiliarize’, ‘to interface’ and ‘to transcend’, which this symposium invites you to discuss together with leading scholars in different fields.
Speakers include:
[Keynote] David Joselit (Prof. of History of Art, Yale University): “Nam June Paik and the Three Ages of Video”
Dieter Daniels (Prof. of Art History & Media Theory, Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst): “Touching Television: Participation Media with Marshall McLuhan, John Cage and Nam June Paik”
Hyoungil Joo (Prof. of Media and Communication, Yeungnam University): “Television and Video: from Happening to Self-Reflection”
Sangho Kim (Prof. of Journalism and Mass Communication, Daegu University): “Moon – the Oldest TV, Global Village – Humanity Connected by TV: Nam June Paik and Marshall McLuhan”
Hyunjean Lee (Prof. of Media Art, Yonsei University): “Multiple Levels of Closed Feedback Loops in Contemporary Moving Images: Based on Media Artworks using the Camera-Screen Interface”
Yvonne Spielmann (Prof. of New Media, University of the West of Scotland): “Mediatization and Remediatization: Electronic Experiments by Nam June Paik and Dara Birnbaum”
Discussants are:
Manu Park (Director, Nam June Paik Art Center), Kwanghyun Shim (Prof. of Cinema Studies, Korea National University of Arts), Bongkeun Yoo (Research Prof., Institute of Humanities, Soonchunhyang University), Wonkon Yi (Prof. of Fine Arts, Dankook University)
Curator: Seong Eun Kim
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The NJP Art Center is supported by Gyeonggi Cultural Foundation and Gyeonggi Province.
