— Nam June Paik
“Someday artists will work with capacitors, resistors, and semi-conductors as they work today with brushes, violins and junk.”
1965“Someday artists will work with capacitors, resistors, and semi-conductors as they work today with brushes, violins and junk.”
1965“Someday artists will work with capacitors, resistors, and semi-conductors as they work today with brushes, violins and junk.”
1965“Someday artists will work with capacitors, resistors, and semi-conductors as they work today with brushes, violins and junk.”
1965“Someday artists will work with capacitors, resistors, and semi-conductors as they work today with brushes, violins and junk.”
1965“Someday artists will work with capacitors, resistors, and semi-conductors as they work today with brushes, violins and junk.”
1965“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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