2 1/2 TV
Date/ 1978
Artist(Credit Line)/ Nam June Paik
Classification/ Object
- Paik-Abe Video Synthesizer
- Homecoming
- 12 Piano Compositions for Nam June Paik by George Maciunas performer’s copy of score with annotations and instructions for performance at Nam June Paik Art Center in 2010 prepared and performed by Ben Patterson
- Message to Nam June Paik
- Chronicle of A Beautiful Dancer
- In Memoriam Geroge Maciunas
- Flux Reliquary
- Deck, A Fluxgame
- Closed on Monday, A Fluxgame
- Bead Puzzle
- Flux Rain Machine
- Events
- Living Fluxsculpture
- Instruction No.2
- Events
- Name kit
- Sinfonie Nr. 6 - in box (Violinparts and score), funkhaus köln, Neuss
- 2 1/2 TV
- Chair Black and White
- Colored Chair
- Hommage a John Cage
- 6 drawings on beertabs
- Fan
- MS-Fluxussus (symphonie Nr. 7)
- Cooking Pot (with Korean Recipe)
- First portable TV
- Untitled
Dimensions / 17×62 x1.9cm
Medium / Wood carving
Nam June Paik often made a design of a TV set in a simple square, not only on the canvas but on different found objects such as paper, newspaper, and wooden panel. Entitled 2 1/2 TV, this work uses a piece of wood in the form of a rightward arrow, on which Paik drew two and a half rectangles. It seems that the design-like paintings of Paik’s came out of the process in which he poetically explored and expressed his idea of expanding television as an artistic medium.
Medium / Wood carving
Nam June Paik often made a design of a TV set in a simple square, not only on the canvas but on different found objects such as paper, newspaper, and wooden panel. Entitled 2 1/2 TV, this work uses a piece of wood in the form of a rightward arrow, on which Paik drew two and a half rectangles. It seems that the design-like paintings of Paik’s came out of the process in which he poetically explored and expressed his idea of expanding television as an artistic medium.
