50 Years of Electronic Art at WRO Art Center
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50 Years of Electronic Art - Inauguration
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Inauguration of the 50 Years of Electronic Art celebrations, marks the upcoming 15. Media Art Biennale WRO 2013 Pioneering Values that starts May the 8th
March 11th – 20th 2013 at the WRO Art Center, Wrocław March 11th – 20th 1963 at the Galerie Parnass, Wuppertal
Installations and video material connected with Exposition of Music – Electronic Television, along with a series of screenings of Nam June Paik videos.
The internet premiere of the interactive catalog AC/DC/IT: A Short History of Video Installations: at And at video.wrocenter.pl
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Paik's first major exhibition Exposition of Music – Electronic Television took place from March 11–20, 1963 in the Wuppertal private Galerie Parnass (...) the chaotic impression made by the TV ensemble is deceptive, insofar as the whole thing is more like a laboratory situation with various experiments set up in it than a classical exhibition. Paik's idea of Participation TV which allows viewers to participate actively rather than remain passive consumers, anticipates current discussion about interactivity and multimedia as twenty-first century mass media.
Dieter Daniels, Paik's Participation TV, text in the Widok 2. WRO Media Art Reader: Nam June Paik - Driving Media, WRO Art Center, Wrocław 2009
Paik used four pianos, objects that produced mechanical sounds, a few/several records and tapes, twelve interconnected TV sets and the head of a freshly slaughtered ox, which was hung over the entrance to the gallery. It was the first time TV sets had been used as ready-mades and as instruments for electronic painting. Scholars and critics concurred that Paik's piece was a breakthrough in the use of new media in art, using them simultaneously as tools, as a means of expression and as raw material.
Concept: Piotr Krajewski, Viola Krajewska
