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Good Morning Mr. Orwell
Artist
Nam June PaikDating
1984On Screens
Produced by WNET, New York; FR3, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; WDR Westdeutsche Fernsehen
Producer: Carol Brandenburg
Partial Post-Production: Nam June Paik, Paul Garrin
Post-Production: Broadway Video, Post Perfect
Editor of single-channel version: Skip Blumberg
Medium
Video, colour, sound, 37 min 54 sec
Credits
Courtesy of Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York
On Screens
Produced by WNET, New York; FR3, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; WDR Westdeutsche Fernsehen
Producer: Carol Brandenburg
Partial Post-Production: Nam June Paik, Paul Garrin
Post-Production: Broadway Video, Post Perfect
Editor of single-channel version: Skip Blumberg
Good Morning Mr.Orwell is an edited version of Paik's first international satellite transmission, which was held on New Year's Day 1984. It was Paik’s rebuttal to Orwell's novel 1984, a vision of a dystopian future in which telecommunications are deployed as instruments of mass surveillance and oppression. Paik visually brought together events happening simultaneously in the USA and Europe, overlapping in the same frame. The event featured an intentionally jarring mix of “high art” and popular entertainment, live and recorded, as well as a computer animation accompanying a composition by Philip Glass.
