Artist field note

Nam June Paik

Television turned from appliance into artistic material.

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TV Cello by Nam June Paik
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TV Cello

1971

Stacked monitors become an instrument played by Charlotte Moorman. Music, body and broadcast technology merge.

The five in one idea

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