Picture This: Electronic Superhighway

Working on Paik's Electronic Superhighway
Michael Edson
June 10, 2006

 

Somebody was working on Nam June Paik's Electronic Superhighway: Continental U.S., Alaska, Hawaii yesterday. Those are sections of the lower Mississippi river attached to the gray plywood crate on the floor.

There's a little video that gives a sense of what Electronic Superhighway looks like in action in the galleries. You can also zoom in on it for a detailed closeup. We open in 22 days. Photo by Mike Edson.

 

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