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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
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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
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
December 10, 2010–March 2, 2012
Watch This! New Directions in the Art of the Moving Image is a series of rotating exhibitions drawn from SAAM’s permanent collection. The works of art featured in this installation identify a complex relationship between still photography and moving images. These artistic engagements with captured and recorded pictures examine notions of storytelling and processes of interpretation, underscoring just how relative meaning can be, and urging viewers to question where the power of imagery might reside. Taken together, the arrangement traces a vibrant call and response between artists and pictures, narratives, and interpretation.