Artist field note

Nam June Paik

Television turned from appliance into artistic material.

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Magnet TV by Nam June Paik
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Magnet TV

1965

A magnet distorts the broadcast image. The television stops delivering content and starts revealing its machinery.

The five in one idea

Paik understood early that screens would become an environment, not just devices we occasionally watched.