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Nam June Paik came along about the same time I did in broadcasting and made me look at my business with an artistic eye. I was not always in agreement with what he did, but he make me think about the flickering image we so treasure.
We are here to look at the end image and how it got there, which is the true history we now preserve. He looked at what was in the image, how it got to us, and how the mahogany and plastic boxes could be interpreted. That was his canvas.
If you think of the metal monstrosities we collect, it is not too far a throw to imagine them as a canvas by themselves in their time.
Most of the producers of the kinescopes we love to view did this inside the CRT. He looked at that very box in our living rooms and our lives.
Is it a lapdog in our living room? A hulking cultural monster? A burden on our lives? The pics Dave posted give you a place to start to think.
Take your pick and give it some thought. He made me think about why we left mahogany boxes and gave in to black plastic boxes. Does the box reflect the content and the time? Cheaper shows, cheaper boxes? He gave an artist's reflection on how we got to where we are and why we made the choices that we let roll over us. Which suffered first, the programs or the delivery vehicle?
Just my thoughts with regards to the art inside and outside the box.
Dave A
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