— Nam June Paik
“TV will gain many branches ... Picture-Phone, tele-facsimile, two way inter-active TV for shopping, library research, opinion polling, health consultation, bio-communication, inter-office data transmission, and many other variants will turn the TV set into ... 1001 new applications, not only for daily convenience but also for the enrichment of life itself ... a new nuclear energy in information and society-building, which I would call tentatively “BROADBAND COMMUNICATION NETWORK.””
1974“TV will gain many branches ... Picture-Phone, tele-facsimile, two way inter-active TV for shopping, library research, opinion polling, health consultation, bio-communication, inter-office data transmission, and many other variants will turn the TV set into ... 1001 new applications, not only for daily convenience but also for the enrichment of life itself ... a new nuclear energy in information and society-building, which I would call tentatively “BROADBAND COMMUNICATION NETWORK.””
1974“TV will gain many branches ... Picture-Phone, tele-facsimile, two way inter-active TV for shopping, library research, opinion polling, health consultation, bio-communication, inter-office data transmission, and many other variants will turn the TV set into ... 1001 new applications, not only for daily convenience but also for the enrichment of life itself ... a new nuclear energy in information and society-building, which I would call tentatively “BROADBAND COMMUNICATION NETWORK.””
1974“TV will gain many branches ... Picture-Phone, tele-facsimile, two way inter-active TV for shopping, library research, opinion polling, health consultation, bio-communication, inter-office data transmission, and many other variants will turn the TV set into ... 1001 new applications, not only for daily convenience but also for the enrichment of life itself ... a new nuclear energy in information and society-building, which I would call tentatively “BROADBAND COMMUNICATION NETWORK.””
1974“TV will gain many branches ... Picture-Phone, tele-facsimile, two way inter-active TV for shopping, library research, opinion polling, health consultation, bio-communication, inter-office data transmission, and many other variants will turn the TV set into ... 1001 new applications, not only for daily convenience but also for the enrichment of life itself ... a new nuclear energy in information and society-building, which I would call tentatively “BROADBAND COMMUNICATION NETWORK.””
1974“TV will gain many branches ... Picture-Phone, tele-facsimile, two way inter-active TV for shopping, library research, opinion polling, health consultation, bio-communication, inter-office data transmission, and many other variants will turn the TV set into ... 1001 new applications, not only for daily convenience but also for the enrichment of life itself ... a new nuclear energy in information and society-building, which I would call tentatively “BROADBAND COMMUNICATION NETWORK.””
1974“The Yellow peril! C’est moi.”
1963–1964- Filter
TV Chair
Content Type
Artwork
Artist
Nam June PaikDating
1968
Medium
Closed circuit television camera, chair, acrylic and black and white cathode-ray tube television
83.8 x 43.2 x 38.1 cm
Credits
Collection of San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Image © Estate of Nam June Paik; photo: Jon Huffman
Paik predicted that video technologies would become so ingrained in our daily lives that they would blend in with our living environments, taking the form of video furniture and video walls.
TV Chair plays with this notion by proposing an absurd piece of video furniture which seems to mock people’s obsession with their own image. A CCTV camera points down at a chair with a TV under its transparent seat. The screen displays the live video feedback from the camera, but its position makes it very hard to see yourself in the screen without blocking it.
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