In this video, Paik uses abrupt editing to mimic channel surfing across a futuristic, globally connected media landscape that he predicts will require TV Guide magazines the size of city phonebooks. He combines found commercials, documentary clips, and news coverage with original video of his favorite performers, including Moorman playing his TV Cello while appearing to float in and out of its screens. This footage is manipulated by the Paik-Abe Video Synthesizer, a visual effects machine that Paik invented with Japanese engineer Shuya Abe in 1969 and operated for this work with John Godfrey, head engineer at New York City’s public television station. Global Groove encapsulates Paik’s inventions, ideas, and primary collaborations at this time and will reappear in his installations for decades to come.
- Title
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Global Groove
- Artists
- Date
- n.d.
- Location
- Not on view
- Dimensions
- overall/clamshell: 10 5⁄8 x 6 3⁄8 x 1 1⁄4 in. (27 x 16.2 x 3.2 cm) tape: 5 3⁄4 in. x 10 in. x 1 in. (14.6 x 25.4 x 2.5 cm)
- Credit Line
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Smithsonian American Art Museum
Gift to the Nam June Paik Archive from the Nam June Paik Estate
- Mediums Description
- digital video cassette in plastic and metal case
- Classifications
- Object Number
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NJP.1.VID.303
- Linked Open Data
- Linked Open Data URI
