9/23/69: Experiment with David Atwood

Copied Nam June Paik, 9/23/69: Experiment with David Atwood, 1969, single-channel video, color, sound; 80:00 minutes, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Nam June Paik Archive; Gift of the Artist’s Estate, NJP.1.VID.1, © Nam June Paik Estate

Artwork Details

Title
9/23/69: Experiment with David Atwood
Artist
Date
1969
Location
Not on view
Copyright
© Nam June Paik Estate
Credit Line
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Nam June Paik Archive; Gift of the Artist’s Estate
Mediums Description
single-channel video, color, sound; 80:00 minutes
Classifications
Object Number
NJP.1.VID.1
Linked Open Data
https://edan.si.edu/saam/id/object/NJP.1.VID.1

Artwork Description

9/23/69: Experiment with David Atwood was created while Nam June Paik was artist-in-residence at WGBH, a public-television station in Boston. The title refers to the date Paik orchestrated this spontaneous performance in which he composed a myriad of televisual and musical scores into a stunning electronic display. The production was broadcast live as Paik collaborated with engineers, musicians, video technicians, and fellow artists to mix television signals with sound, fusing electronic abstractions of moving color and imagery that had never before been seen or experienced in the medium of television.

Watch This!: Revelations in Media Art, 2015

Exhibitions

Media - 2010.5 - SAAM-2010.5_1 - 73850
Watch This! New Directions in the Art of the Moving Image (1.0)
December 10, 2010–March 2, 2012
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Watch This! New Directions in the Art of the Moving Image is a series of rotating exhibitions drawn from SAAM’s permanent collection.