Dimensions / Variable
Medium / Manipulated 2 TVs, audio generators, 2 ampliphiers, heat regulator

One of the Paik’s earliest television experiments, Crown TV is a work in which signals generated and amplified are conveyed to a TV to manipulate its internal circuits. A variety of oscillating patterns are made when the electric signals of the circuit-manipulated TV are distorted. Paik once said that these “dancing” patterns are the foundation of his woks, along with Magnet TV. Manipulating the internal circuits of televisions by using audio signals is a technique that was later used in video synthesizers, which is a basic method of forming patterns that frequently appear in Paik’s videos.