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10/3/2013

50 Years of Electronic Art - Inauguration

WRO Art Center, Wroclaw

Paik’s first major exhibition Exposition of Music – Electronic Television took place from March 11–20, 1963 in the Wuppertal private Galerie Parnass (…) the chaotic impression made by the TV ensemble is deceptive, insofar as the whole thing is more like a laboratory situation with various experiments set up in it than a classical exhibition. Paik’s idea of Participation TV which allows viewers to participate actively rather than remain passive consumers, anticipates current discussion about interactivity and multimedia as twenty-first century mass media.

Dieter Daniels, Paik’s Participation TV, text in the Widok 2. WRO Media Art Reader: Nam June Paik – Driving Media, WRO Art Center, Wrocław 2009

Paik used four pianos, objects that produced mechanical sounds, a few/several records and tapes, twelve interconnected TV sets and the head of a freshly slaughtered ox, which was hung over the entrance to the gallery. It was the first time TV sets had been used as ready-mades and as instruments for electronic painting. Scholars and critics concurred that Paik’s piece was a breakthrough in the use of new media in art, using them simultaneously as tools, as a means of expression and as raw material.

The internet premiere of the interactive catalog AC/DC/IT: A Short History of Video Installations – at video.wrocenter.pl

Concept: Piotr Krajewski, Viola Krajewska

March 11th – 20th 2013 at the WRO Art Center, Wrocław
March 11th – 20th 1963 at the Galerie Parnass, Wuppertal

Installations and video material connected with Exposition of Music – Electronic Television, along with a series of screenings of Nam June Paik videos.

WRO Art Center
Widok 7 50-052 Wrocław Poland
Open: mon 13:00—19:00, tue-fri 11:00—19:00, sun 12:00—16:00. closed on Saturdays
Free entrance

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