9/23/69: Experiment with David Atwood

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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

Artwork Details

Title
9/23/69: Experiment with David Atwood
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.

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Works by this artist (9 items)

Nam June Paik, Electronic Superhighway: Continental U.S., Alaska, Hawaii, 1995, fifty-one channel video installation (including one closed-circuit television feed), custom electronics, neon lighting, steel and wood; color, sound, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the artist, 2002.23, © Nam June Paik Estate
Electronic Superhighway: Continental U.S., Alaska, Hawaii
Date1995
fifty-one channel video installation (including one closed-circuit television feed), custom electronics, neon lighting, steel and wood; color, sound
On view
Nam June Paik, SAT-ART III: I. Good Morning, Mr. Orwell; II. Bye-Bye Kipling; III. Wrap Around the World, 1988, 3 VHS tapes and printed booklet, wrapped in printed fabric with plastic shrink wrap and paper label, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift to the Nam June Paik Archive from the Nam June Paik Estate, NJP.1.VID.354.1-.19
SAT-ART III: I. Good Morning, Mr. Orwell; II. Bye-Bye…
Date1988
3 VHS tapes and printed booklet, wrapped in printed fabric with plastic shrink wrap and paper label
On view
Nam June Paik, Zen for TV, 1963, 1976 version, manipulated television set; black and white, silent, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Byungseol and Dolores An, 2006.20, © Nam June Paik Estate
Zen for TV
Date1963, 1976 version
manipulated television set; black and white, silent
On view
9/23/69: Experiment with David Atwood
Date1969
single-channel video, color, sound; 80:00 minutes
Not on view

Exhibitions

Media - 2010.5 - SAAM-2010.5_1 - 73850
Watch This! New Directions in the Art of the Moving Image (1.0)
December 10, 2010March 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.

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Carolee Schneemann, Viet-Flakes, 1962-67, re-edited 2015, 16mm film transferred to digital video, toned black and white, sound; 08:31 minutes, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase through the Frank K. Ribelin Endowment, 2019.21, © 2019 Carolee Schneemann Foundation. Courtesy Electronic Arts Intermix, NY
Viet-Flakes
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Vertical and Receding Lines
Date1974
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Not on view
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Date1992
single-channel video, color sound; 05:58 minutes
Not on view
Hans Breder, Quanta, 1967, single-channel video, color, silent; 03:46 minutes, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the artist, 2013.50.4, © 1967, Hans Breder
Quanta
Date1967
single-channel video, color, silent; 03:46 minutes
Not on view