Dimensions / Variable
Medium / Manipulated TV, microphone

This work is one of the 13 experimental televisions shown in Paik’s first solo exhibition in Wuppertal, Exposition of Music—Electronic Television (Germany, 1963). Its earlier form was sheer acoustic, while the later version of Participation TV visualized amplification of sound. When someone speaks or makes a sound into the microphone, the monitor shows several images. The work housed by the Nam June Paik Art Center was re-made in 1998. When someone makes a sound into the microphone, the acoustic signals are transformed into fine electronic signals, which are amplified and displayed as visual patterns. According to the rise and fall and volume of the sounds made by the audience, the lines split into three colors (red, green, and blue) are transformed into images that are not able to be predictable nor repeat themselves.