Magnet TV
Date/ 1965/1969
Artist(Credit Line)/ Nam June Paik
Classification/ Installation
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- I Wrote it in Tokyo in 1954
- Beuys Vox
- Magnet TV
- Nixon TV
- TV Crown
- Swiss Clock
- Participation TV
- TV Garden
- TV Fish (Video Fish)
- TV Buddha
- TV Clock
- Moon is the Oldest TV
- Candle TV
- Real Fish/Live Fish
- Three Elements :Square
- Three Elements : Triangle
- Three Elements : Circle
- Elephant Cart
- Think Loud
- Piano & Letters
- Rabbit inhabits the moon
- Ideas You Believe are Absurd Ultimately Lead to Success
- Eclipse
- No.1 Video Chandelier
- Transmission Tower
Dimensions / TV: 28×43×40cm, Magnet: 4×14×4cm
Medium / CRT TV, magnet
Magnet TV was displayed in Nam June Paik’s first solo exhibition in America, Nam June Paik: Cybernetic Arts and Music in 1965. The audience was able to alter the images on the TV screen by moving a magnet. The strong magnetic field interferes with and distorts the TV’s electronic signals so that the audience can involve themselves in developing beautiful abstract patterns on the screen, as Paik intended. By exemplifying a process of simple manipulation of a screen to create wonderful images, this work predicts the future of video art.
Medium / CRT TV, magnet
Magnet TV was displayed in Nam June Paik’s first solo exhibition in America, Nam June Paik: Cybernetic Arts and Music in 1965. The audience was able to alter the images on the TV screen by moving a magnet. The strong magnetic field interferes with and distorts the TV’s electronic signals so that the audience can involve themselves in developing beautiful abstract patterns on the screen, as Paik intended. By exemplifying a process of simple manipulation of a screen to create wonderful images, this work predicts the future of video art.
