NAM JUNE PAIK:
THE FUTURE IS NOW
THE FUTURE IS NOW
— Nam June Paik
“The Yellow peril! C’est moi.”
1963–1964“The Yellow peril! C’est moi.”
1963–1964“The Yellow peril! C’est moi.”
1963–1964“The Yellow peril! C’est moi.”
1963–1964“The Yellow peril! C’est moi.”
1963–1964“The Yellow peril! C’est moi.”
1963–1964- Filter
Global Groove
Content Type
Artwork
Artist
Nam June Paik and John GodfreyDating
1973Medium
Video, single channel, 4:3 format, colour, sound, 28 min 30 sec
Credits
Courtesy of Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York
Produced by the TV Lab at WNET/Thirteen, New York
Director: Merrily Mossman
Narrator: Russell Connor
Film footage: Jud Yalkut and Robert Breer
Global Groove is Paik’s vision of global communications in a world shaped by mass media. He said, “This is a glimpse of the video landscape of tomorrow, when you will be able to switch to any TV station on the Earth.” It combines avant-garde art, pop-culture references and imagery from around the world. In this hectic collage of sound and image, video sources are overlapped, multiplied, colourised and distorted by a tool called a “video synthesizer.”
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