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A major figure in contemporary art and music, Cage was one of the primary influences on Paik's work, as well as his friend and frequent collaborator. In this multifaceted portrait, Paik creates a pastiche of Cage's performances and anecdotes, interviews with friends and colleagues, and examples of Paik's participatory music and television works that parallel Cage's strategies and concerns. The methodology and philosophies that inform Cage's radical musical aesthetic — chance, randomness, the democratization of sounds — are evident as he performs such seminal pieces as 4'33\" (of complete silence) in Harvard Square, or throws the I Ching to determine performance sites. Among the collage of elements included in this work are segments from Paik's Zen for TV; Paik and Charlotte Moorman in early performances, including the TV Bra; and anecdotes from composer Alvin Lucier.",0.8304,"\u002Flfuk5ZngwofUkOWFL5C1aQ4P2VM.jpg","1976-11-03",6,"5523e118925141709600644f",{"adult":4,"backdrop_path":40,"genre_ids":118,"id":119,"title":120,"original_language":84,"original_title":120,"overview":121,"popularity":122,"poster_path":40,"release_date":123,"softcore":4,"video":4,"vote_average":48,"vote_count":48,"character":61,"credit_id":124,"order":125,"media_type":38},[25],403443,"Kunst und Ketchup","Early documentary about the pop art scene and happenings in Germany.",0.7279,"1966-02-14","576ead2bc3a3683c2400418a",3,{"adult":4,"backdrop_path":40,"genre_ids":127,"id":129,"title":130,"original_language":131,"original_title":132,"overview":133,"popularity":134,"poster_path":135,"release_date":136,"softcore":4,"video":4,"vote_average":137,"vote_count":11,"character":49,"credit_id":138,"order":115,"media_type":38},[128,25,108],16,406845,"All Star Video","ja","電子の拓本","A compilation of avant-garde artwork and talent of the mid to late 20th century hosted by Ryuichi Sakamoto.",0.9072,"\u002F53jcvZ8QYX82Cy5MnDbZVuGWoqQ.jpg","1985-01-21",6.5,"578b1fe2c3a3682c29005816",{"adult":4,"backdrop_path":140,"genre_ids":141,"id":142,"title":143,"original_language":28,"original_title":143,"overview":144,"popularity":145,"poster_path":146,"release_date":147,"softcore":4,"video":4,"vote_average":34,"vote_count":37,"character":49,"credit_id":148,"order":149,"media_type":38},"\u002FfwskwN3Wzwv7QVyxlttJjU3cdae.jpg",[25],533541,"365 Day Project","This exhibition focuses on Jonas Mekas’ 365 Day Project, a succession of films and videos in calendar form. Every day as of January 1st, 2007 and for an entire year, as indicated in the title, a large public (the artist's friends, as well as unknowns) were invited to view a diary of short films of various lengths (from one to twenty minutes) on the Internet. A movie was posted each day, adding to the previously posted pieces, resulting altogether in nearly thirty-eight hours of moving images.",1.9311,"\u002FA6zlbQdL5bNVRx13wRJrpmCNbRI.jpg","2007-12-31","66c46e03d2033884581acbba",67,{"adult":4,"backdrop_path":40,"genre_ids":151,"id":152,"title":153,"original_language":28,"original_title":153,"overview":154,"popularity":155,"poster_path":40,"release_date":156,"softcore":4,"video":4,"vote_average":48,"vote_count":48,"character":61,"credit_id":157,"order":125,"media_type":38},[25,108],434453,"Stockhausen's Originale: Doubletakes","This fascinating film documents the U.S. premiere production of Originale, a Happening by German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen. Filmed at the \"2nd Annual Avant Garde Festival of New York,\" which was produced by Norman Seaman and Charlotte Moorman, the stage production was directed by Allan Kaprow. Performers include Nam June Paik, Moorman, Jackson Mac Low and Allen Ginsberg, among many others.",0.8969,"1964-01-01","58760cdc92514179ec006d1a",{"adult":4,"backdrop_path":40,"genre_ids":159,"id":160,"title":161,"original_language":28,"original_title":161,"overview":162,"popularity":163,"poster_path":164,"release_date":165,"softcore":4,"video":4,"vote_average":48,"vote_count":48,"character":61,"credit_id":166,"order":48,"media_type":38},[],436781,"P+A-I(k)","1966, 16mm film on video, black-and-white and color; 10 minutes",0.9921,"\u002FonJWUTUPy1sw0DjJvIcSD7lN2em.jpg","1966-01-01","588aadf592514156a600e8c3",{"adult":4,"backdrop_path":168,"genre_ids":169,"id":170,"title":171,"original_language":28,"original_title":171,"overview":172,"popularity":173,"poster_path":174,"release_date":175,"softcore":4,"video":4,"vote_average":176,"vote_count":34,"character":35,"credit_id":177,"order":178,"media_type":38},"\u002Fsz5KXTW3ebnQLHRgZ4z7N8DgGm2.jpg",[25],190060,"He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life","A film collage tracing the story of the lives, loves, and deaths within the artistic community surrounding Jonas Mekas.",1.6658,"\u002FffTB0xCRFyxYme3LQUlwOKJpsEZ.jpg","1986-02-22",8.4,"58cd75e6c3a368508c00eb18",30,{"adult":4,"backdrop_path":180,"genre_ids":181,"id":182,"title":183,"original_language":28,"original_title":183,"overview":184,"popularity":185,"poster_path":186,"release_date":187,"softcore":4,"video":4,"vote_average":101,"vote_count":188,"character":49,"credit_id":189,"order":190,"media_type":38},"\u002F68Qic4gQ6YGoQdDyYxEhufJCunI.jpg",[25],130824,"As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty","A compilation of over 30 years of private home movie footage shot by Lithuanian-American avant-garde director Jonas Mekas, assembled by Mekas \"purely by chance\", without concern for chronological order.",2.1583,"\u002FtDaxB5juEGwXD7oZwh8IXsnisar.jpg","2000-11-05",87,"59dd62e692514124eb07e815",12,{"adult":4,"backdrop_path":192,"genre_ids":193,"id":194,"title":195,"original_language":28,"original_title":195,"overview":196,"popularity":197,"poster_path":198,"release_date":199,"softcore":4,"video":4,"vote_average":200,"vote_count":125,"character":61,"credit_id":201,"order":202,"media_type":38},"\u002FnUkpgY50XEp0NbIUFCZAZ2JB1ZG.jpg",[25],328649,"\"Topless Cellist\" Charlotte Moorman","Nam June Paik's first single-channel videotape since 1989 is a heartfelt tribute to his long-time collaborator Charlotte Moorman. This portrait traces Moorman's career as an avant-garde performer, from her classical training to her notorious arrest as the \"Topless Cellist\" and subsequent talk-show celebrity. Rare documentations of Moorman's performances include Otto Piene's Sky Kiss and Jim McWilliams' Chocolate Cello. Interviews with Moorman's friends, family and collaborators, such as Yoko Ono, Christo and Jeanne Claude, Otto Piene, and Barbara Moore, among others, provide intimate recollections of the inimitable Moorman.",0.972,"\u002FwpCFcib5ECGwxxpYucvDUduYy7Q.jpg","1995-03-03",5.7,"5b569c860e0a2673d202e2c8",5,{"adult":4,"backdrop_path":204,"genre_ids":205,"id":206,"title":207,"original_language":28,"original_title":208,"overview":209,"popularity":210,"poster_path":211,"release_date":212,"softcore":4,"video":4,"vote_average":213,"vote_count":37,"character":35,"credit_id":214,"order":125,"media_type":38},"\u002F5foVTaOWgVq1FSKlJpzbU1xxObd.jpg",[25],505163,"George: The Story of George Maciunas and Fluxus","George","In 1961 Lithuanian American artist and impresario George Maciunas established the avant-garde art movement Fluxus. George details the rise of Fluxus following a sensationalized tour of “concerts” in Europe in 1962, and continuing in New York for most of the 1960s and ’70s. During this time Maciunas was converting the dying industrial buildings of Soho into a network of artists’ lofts, creating one of the first official real estate co-ops of artist-owned buildings. Maciunas’s life and legacy—as recounted by artists of his generation, including Yoko Ono and Jonas Mekas—ignited debates that remain pivotal to artists working today.",1.9138,"\u002FfqetUStaIo7mW1glGjY3X1YwKsx.jpg","2018-02-21",7,"5c0fd32e0e0a2638cc0e53e0",{"adult":4,"backdrop_path":40,"genre_ids":216,"id":217,"title":218,"original_language":28,"original_title":218,"overview":219,"popularity":220,"poster_path":221,"release_date":222,"softcore":4,"video":4,"vote_average":48,"vote_count":48,"character":49,"credit_id":223,"order":224,"media_type":38},[25,108,107],393922,"Bye Bye Kipling","This ambitious live satellite link-up of Japan, Korea and the United States features interviews with Keith Haring and architect Arata Isozaki, and performances and works by Philip Glass and the Kodo Drummers, Charlotte Moorman, Nam June Paik, and Lou Reed. In an extraordinary section, a performance in Japan of classical Western music is accompanied by a group of Kabuki dancers.",0.865,"\u002FgUnrKBdZQ1KVQrUHUi7HNGRDzoS.jpg","1986-10-04","5c57211a92514116fc5853b3",8,{"adult":4,"backdrop_path":40,"genre_ids":226,"id":227,"title":228,"original_language":131,"original_title":228,"overview":229,"popularity":230,"poster_path":231,"release_date":232,"softcore":4,"video":4,"vote_average":48,"vote_count":48,"character":61,"credit_id":233,"order":51,"media_type":38},[],382617,"Hi-Red Centre Shelter Plan","Hi-Red Centre were comprised of Genpei Akasegawa, Natsuyuki Nakanishi and Jiro Takamatsu, who enacted ‘happening’-style performance art in unusual spaces during the early 1960s in Japan. The film is an extremely rare document of one of their early events, where they hired out a room in the Imperial Hotel and invited many friends and professionals in the art scene to participate in the occasion. The performance parodies Cold War fears and the construction of private bomb-shelters, as they diligently measure each guest’s weight and proportions in pretence that they are to build human-size shelters for each individual. Key figures of the art scene make an appearance, including Yoko Ono, video-artist Nam June Paik, noise artist Yasunao Tone, filmmaker Masao Adachi and graphic designer Tadanori Yokoo. A rarely seen and exceptional insight into the Japanese art scene of the era, Jonouchi records the event in his characteristically erratic style.",1.231,"\u002FqSGXAR36i0I7A4YqeWriCQ1EzIi.jpg","1964-02-14","5d079c20c3a3680a5723e27c",{"adult":4,"backdrop_path":235,"genre_ids":236,"id":237,"title":238,"original_language":28,"original_title":238,"overview":239,"popularity":240,"poster_path":241,"release_date":242,"softcore":4,"video":4,"vote_average":48,"vote_count":48,"character":61,"credit_id":243,"order":125,"media_type":38},"\u002FYGJqS9ML1S7MGcG0G7DFJcPaQj.jpg",[25],651330,"Kill Your TV: Jim Moir’s Weird World of Video Art","Jim Moir (aka Vic Reeves) explores Video Art, revealing how different generations ‘hacked’ the tools of television to pioneer new ways of creating art that can be beautiful, bewildering and wildly experimental.",0.8115,"\u002Fv0rca7GMZnorrFolEGmZbtF1pR8.jpg","2019-11-24","5ddd75cf3faba0001902e8a4",{"adult":4,"backdrop_path":40,"genre_ids":245,"id":246,"title":247,"original_language":28,"original_title":247,"overview":248,"popularity":249,"poster_path":250,"release_date":251,"softcore":4,"video":4,"vote_average":48,"vote_count":48,"character":61,"credit_id":252,"order":125,"media_type":38},[25],688838,"Re: Maciunas and Fluxus","“Drawing on his personal archives, Mekas has assembled a Fluxus vaudeville starring Yoko Ono, Joseph Beuys, and the late Nam June Paik. Most of the material is relatively recent although Ben Vautieur shows some early 1960s work to hilarious effect and Mekas channels Fluxus founder George Maciunas throughout.” – J. Hoberman, VILLAGE VOICE",1.2814,"\u002FlvDUwvP6MqVgsvuLqFG1NfRaAwx.jpg","2011-01-01","5e8c1de24b0c633ca72bbf58",{"adult":4,"backdrop_path":40,"genre_ids":254,"id":255,"title":256,"original_language":28,"original_title":256,"overview":257,"popularity":258,"poster_path":259,"release_date":260,"softcore":4,"video":4,"vote_average":48,"vote_count":48,"character":61,"credit_id":261,"order":11,"media_type":38},[25],744362,"Tapes","The tapes in the program consist of some of Mekas’ earliest cassettes from the 1990s not long after he first began working with video as well as more recent mini-DV tapes from 2010s. The contents of the tapes have not been previously seen in their entirety. The footage provides rare insight into aspects of Mekas’ video-making practice, as well as his activities, thoughts, dreams, and concerns, especially during the later years of his life.",1.5354,"\u002FlXPuiPDfZxU1Rd9mYH6mYgBynZc.jpg","2020-09-14","5f64c8991684f700394ff4b2",{"adult":4,"backdrop_path":40,"genre_ids":263,"id":264,"title":265,"original_language":28,"original_title":265,"overview":266,"popularity":267,"poster_path":268,"release_date":269,"softcore":4,"video":4,"vote_average":48,"vote_count":48,"character":61,"credit_id":270,"order":48,"media_type":38},[25],767619,"Video: The New Wave","The New Wave is the seminal compendium of independent video work in the early 1970s. Written and narrated by Brian O'Doherty, this overview of the emerging video field includes examples of guerrilla television and \"street\" documentaries, early explorations with image-processing and synthesis, and performance video. This historical anthology includes excerpts of tapes by the following video pioneers: Stephen Beck and Warner Jepson, Peter Campus, Douglas Davis, Ed Emshwiller, Bill Etra, Frank Gillette, Don Hallock, Joan Jonas, Richard Serra, Paul Kos, Nam June Paik, Otto Piene, Willard Rosenquist, Dan Sandin, James Seawright, Steina Vasulka, TVTV, Stan Vanderbeek and William Wegman.",1.2663,"\u002FasyTRppoMxoMm45GTkYAB79BmIY.jpg","1975-12-24","5fbb43b79f51af003ed5a4f0",{"adult":4,"backdrop_path":40,"genre_ids":272,"id":273,"title":274,"original_language":84,"original_title":274,"overview":275,"popularity":276,"poster_path":277,"release_date":278,"softcore":4,"video":4,"vote_average":224,"vote_count":37,"character":279,"credit_id":280,"order":102,"media_type":38},[93],530836,"Back to Fucking Cambridge","About a group of graduates from Cambridge University who go back to their college to visit a friend who has stayed on there. Otto Muehl founded a community of artists in Vienna in 1970 with the aim of exploring a completely free life practice. Since 1972, this society experiment at the Friedrichshof in Burgenland, 60 kilometers from Vienna, further developed. From the mid-1970s, other municipalities were founded in 30 European cities. At Friedrichshof itself lived at times up to 240 members and visitors.",1.2103,"\u002FmSpxqkfwoqnPHTaTPhMroP0KyrJ.jpg","1987-11-15","Anton von Webern","6001a402c0348b003d36e485",{"adult":4,"backdrop_path":40,"genre_ids":282,"id":283,"title":284,"original_language":28,"original_title":284,"overview":285,"popularity":286,"poster_path":40,"release_date":287,"softcore":4,"video":4,"vote_average":48,"vote_count":48,"character":61,"credit_id":288,"order":48,"media_type":38},[],1384950,"Trip to Korea","Single channel video (color; sound; 1984)",0.7862,"1984-12-01","672f19fc1770b0351de37544",{"adult":4,"backdrop_path":40,"genre_ids":290,"id":291,"title":292,"original_language":28,"original_title":292,"overview":293,"popularity":294,"poster_path":295,"release_date":296,"softcore":4,"video":4,"vote_average":48,"vote_count":48,"character":49,"credit_id":297,"order":298,"media_type":38},[],847224,"Flux-Concert","On March 24, 1979, The Kitchen presented a two-part program dedicated to the work of various Fluxus artists. The programming began with the premiere of Alison Knowles’s “Natural Assemblages and the True Crow.” For the piece, Knowles engaged in a dialogue with her own taped voice, which read aloud selections from various natural history books. Simultaneously, violinist Michael Goldstein provided an improvised score while dancer Jessie Higgins executed a number of one-movement phrases by following instructions on index cards. The second part of the night’s programming consisted of forty rapid performances—most sixty seconds or less—by various Fluxus members, including Yoko Ono, George Brecht, La Monte Young, and Nam June Paik. 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This tribute to Paik also includes \"Bonus Art Video,\" in which 17 New York City artists discuss Paik's work, and the short educational film \"Lessons from the Video Artist.\"",1.3028,"2006-01-01","68723193f75eacd43f1057a0",{"adult":4,"backdrop_path":40,"genre_ids":335,"id":336,"title":337,"original_language":84,"original_title":338,"overview":339,"popularity":340,"poster_path":40,"release_date":341,"softcore":4,"video":4,"vote_average":48,"vote_count":48,"character":49,"credit_id":342,"order":48,"media_type":38},[25],1511784,"Nam June Paik: The Good Conscience of the Avant Garde","Nam June Paik: Das gute Gewissen der Avantgarde","The film about Nam June Paik, the pioneer of video art, provides insight into his multifaceted artistic work and at the same time paints a biographical portrait of the Korean artist.",0.6332,"1977-01-01","687231bf5becaf12ad105aee",{"adult":4,"backdrop_path":40,"genre_ids":344,"id":345,"title":346,"original_language":28,"original_title":346,"overview":347,"popularity":348,"poster_path":40,"release_date":349,"softcore":4,"video":4,"vote_average":48,"vote_count":48,"character":49,"credit_id":350,"order":213,"media_type":38},[25],910683,"Seminar","An unreleased diary film shot during the Fairleigh-Dickinson Artist Seminar simultaneous to the production of Back and Forth by Michael Snow.",1.8324,"1969-01-01","687231fc85075e1d00c5b5f1",{"adult":4,"backdrop_path":40,"genre_ids":352,"id":353,"title":354,"original_language":28,"original_title":354,"overview":355,"popularity":356,"poster_path":357,"release_date":358,"softcore":4,"video":4,"vote_average":48,"vote_count":48,"character":49,"credit_id":359,"order":37,"media_type":38},[25],455543,"Nam June Paik: Edited for Television","Produced for public television station WNET\u002FThirteen in New York, Nam June Paik: Edited for Television is a provocative portrait of the artist, his work and philosophies. This fascinating document features an interview of Paik by art critic Calvin Tompkins (who wrote a New Yorker profile of the artist in 1975) and ironic commentary by host Russell Connor. Taped in his Soho loft, with the multi-monitor piece Fish Flies on Sky suspended from the ceiling, Paik elliptically addresses his art and philosophies in the context of Dada, Fluxus, the Zen Koan, John Cage, Minimal art, information overload and technology.",0.847,"\u002FA9NOVf4DBFbl6UKCl1mC1fSJmmm.jpg","1975-01-01","68723682980d1a63c7a979e6",{"adult":4,"backdrop_path":40,"genre_ids":361,"id":362,"title":363,"original_language":364,"original_title":363,"overview":365,"popularity":366,"poster_path":40,"release_date":367,"softcore":4,"video":4,"vote_average":48,"vote_count":48,"character":49,"credit_id":368,"order":48,"media_type":38},[25],1512147,"Nam June Paik: The Tiger Lives","ko","A documentary about the life and work of video artist Nam June Paik made by the Korean Broadcasting Network.",0.763,"2003-01-01","68723a3183ac9d3426c5b5c6",{"adult":4,"backdrop_path":40,"genre_ids":370,"id":371,"title":372,"original_language":28,"original_title":372,"overview":373,"popularity":374,"poster_path":40,"release_date":375,"softcore":4,"video":4,"vote_average":213,"vote_count":37,"character":49,"credit_id":376,"order":37,"media_type":38},[25],1107221,"The Misfits - 30 Years of Fluxus","The film portrays a group of artists who since the early 1960s have completely disrupted our ideas of what art can be. In large part filmed in Venice in 1990, when many of the original Fluxus artists met to hold a large exhibition almost 30 years after the first highly untraditional Fluxus' performances. 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Set to classical music and featuring “hippies,” a dancing model, and national political figures, Paik’s five-minute contribution is a form of what he called “participation television.” Here, he instructs you — his audience — to open or close your eyes while the hallucinatory images swirl and twist into frame. The original premiere marked Paik’s first foray into television broadcast and remains an early and ironic example of his ambition to turn inherently passive viewers into active and integral participants.",0.7109,"\u002FzEDuvtl7JMEMlswhQpOjYNhiHd7.jpg","1969-03-23","6248316a17c44300a25ac279","Director",{"adult":4,"backdrop_path":40,"genre_ids":450,"id":454,"title":455,"original_language":28,"original_title":455,"overview":456,"popularity":457,"poster_path":458,"release_date":459,"softcore":4,"video":460,"vote_average":48,"vote_count":48,"credit_id":461,"department":15,"job":448,"media_type":38},[25,451,452,453],14,878,18,831747,"Fluxfilm Anthology 1962-1970","Feature-length compilation program presenting 37 out of 41 original fluxfilms produced and directed in the 1960s by Fluxus artists, including George Maciunas, Nam June Paik, Yoko Ono, Robert Watts, Paul Sharits, et al.",1.6568,"\u002FnQp8UZww90MNnKu3MXAA7FkPTw1.jpg","2010-07-19",true,"60a6ad0aefea7a002984ed10",{"adult":4,"backdrop_path":40,"genre_ids":463,"id":464,"title":465,"original_language":28,"original_title":465,"overview":466,"popularity":467,"poster_path":468,"release_date":407,"softcore":4,"video":4,"vote_average":48,"vote_count":48,"credit_id":469,"department":15,"job":448,"media_type":38},[],847624,"Allan ‘n Allen’s Complaint","The influence of Jewish fathers on their sons and the complexity of familial relationships are explored in a witty, poignant portrait of two artists. Beat poet Allen Ginsberg (whose father Louis was a poet in his own right) and performance artist\u002Fsculptor Allan Kaprow (whose father is a high-powered lawyer) are the sons who struggle with and against the influences of these patriarchal figures.",1.3848,"\u002Flry9bxryDr0pnuI4XgD4Kx2Nz6G.jpg","60e2094c2f266b005e89e4ad",{"adult":4,"backdrop_path":471,"genre_ids":472,"id":473,"title":474,"original_language":28,"original_title":474,"overview":475,"popularity":476,"poster_path":477,"release_date":478,"softcore":4,"video":4,"vote_average":479,"vote_count":115,"credit_id":480,"department":15,"job":448,"media_type":38},"\u002FttMtSHPmDMeMiu2gZLWLA3sBImf.jpg",[],205932,"Zen for Film","In an endless loop, unexposed film runs through the projector. The resulting projected image shows a surface illuminated by a bright light, occasionally altered by the appearance of scratches and dust particles in the surface of the damaged film material. This a film which depicts only its own material qualities; An \"anti-film\", meant to encourage viewers to focus on the lack of concrete images.",0.7287,"\u002FeEv2Fkju6viLDyx7RCA41UQkeOv.jpg","1964-03-21",5.3,"52fe4d12c3a368484e1d56f3",{"adult":4,"backdrop_path":40,"genre_ids":482,"id":483,"title":484,"original_language":28,"original_title":484,"overview":485,"popularity":486,"poster_path":487,"release_date":488,"softcore":4,"video":4,"vote_average":48,"vote_count":48,"credit_id":489,"department":15,"job":448,"media_type":38},[],240372,"Suite 212","Suite 212 is Paik's \"personal New York sketchbook,\" an electronic collage that presents multiple perspectives of New York's media landscape as a fragmented tour of the city. Paik critiques the selling of New York by multinational corporations and the city's role as the master of the media and information industries; Collaborators Yalkut, Davis and Kubota contribute their own vibrant and punchy segments.",0.8141,"\u002F4aavMY787WFLDUHxIk358zqojEH.jpg","1974-12-28","52fe4ea3c3a36847f829e619",{"adult":4,"backdrop_path":40,"genre_ids":491,"id":492,"title":493,"original_language":28,"original_title":493,"overview":494,"popularity":495,"poster_path":496,"release_date":446,"softcore":4,"video":4,"vote_average":48,"vote_count":48,"credit_id":497,"department":15,"job":448,"media_type":38},[107],276845,"The Medium Is the Medium","Produced by WGBH-TV in Boston, the Medium Is the Medium is one of the earliest and most prescient examples of the collaboration between public television and the emerging field of video art in the U.S. WGBH commissioned artists — Allan Kaprow, Nam June Paik, Otto Piene, James Seawright, Thomas Tadlock and Aldo Tambellini — to create original works for broadcast television. Their works explored the parameters of the new medium, from image processing and interactivity to video dance and sculpture.",1.1308,"\u002FhWvcdxWfdEzlXKFntCM6GjIA8cL.jpg","539e69df0e0a26039f000804",{"adult":4,"backdrop_path":40,"genre_ids":499,"id":500,"title":501,"original_language":28,"original_title":501,"overview":502,"popularity":503,"poster_path":40,"release_date":504,"softcore":4,"video":4,"vote_average":505,"vote_count":37,"credit_id":506,"department":15,"job":448,"media_type":38},[25],282119,"Videotape Study No. 3","Part of a collection of restored early works by Nam June Paik and Jud Yalkut, this piece is historically significant as well as remarkably prescient. Video Tape Study No.3 is a direct media intervention, in which Paik distorts and manipulates footage from news conferences by U.S. President Lyndon Johnson and New York Mayor Lindsey.",1.3573,"1969-07-15",4.5,"53c5a3c00e0a26495b00035b",{"adult":4,"backdrop_path":508,"genre_ids":509,"id":510,"title":511,"original_language":28,"original_title":511,"overview":512,"popularity":513,"poster_path":514,"release_date":515,"softcore":4,"video":4,"vote_average":224,"vote_count":11,"credit_id":516,"department":15,"job":448,"media_type":38},"\u002FrRu9dpCfWFyVOoWZH4CtBFqFkuM.jpg",[108],282120,"Beatles Electroniques","Part of a collection of restored early works by Nam June Paik, the haunting Beatles Electronique reveals Paik's engagement with manipulation of pop icons and electronic images. 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This early example of Paik's use of appropriated television imagery as pop cultural artifact was originally created for a performance piece of the same name, which featured Charlotte Moorman and her cello.",0.7239,"\u002F2k6UEKhSj9CHIDGWfmcwiHCjxRs.jpg","53c5a939c3a368625b00012e",{"adult":4,"backdrop_path":40,"genre_ids":544,"id":545,"title":546,"original_language":28,"original_title":546,"overview":547,"popularity":548,"poster_path":40,"release_date":525,"softcore":4,"video":4,"vote_average":115,"vote_count":37,"credit_id":549,"department":15,"job":448,"media_type":38},[25],282126,"Electronic Yoga","Part of the \"Video-Film Concert\" collection on EAI.  From 1966 - 1972.  Music by K. S. 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Paik, amongst other artists who shared the same vision in the 1960s, saw the potential in the television beyond it being a one-sided medium to present programs and commercials. Instead, he saw it more as a place to facilitate a free flow of information exchange. He wanted to strip away the limitations from  copyright system and network restrictions and bring in a new TV culture where information could be accessed inexpensively and conveniently.  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Reversing the theme of the earlier Allan 'n' Allen's Complaint, which dealt with two artists and their relationships to their fathers, Paik explores Malina and Beck's relationship to their children. Interviews provide the memories of actual lives lived together, while Betsy Connors' animated sequences transcend the specific to suggest the universality of childhood. Garrin and Paik edit these elements into an electronic synthesis that is at times dizzyingly psychedelic and always affectionate towards its subjects. Infused with personal and cultural memories that evoke time and place — Janis Joplin concert footage, Living Theatre performances — Paik creates a haunting and deeply moving homage.",0.9443,"\u002FeYJ5Q0Z8Yf5Y7DJYH2SwwUzwMew.jpg","1989-01-01","636b3e1021621b009ba09a23",{"adult":4,"backdrop_path":40,"genre_ids":603,"id":604,"title":605,"original_language":28,"original_title":605,"overview":606,"popularity":607,"poster_path":608,"release_date":609,"softcore":4,"video":4,"vote_average":48,"vote_count":48,"credit_id":610,"department":15,"job":448,"media_type":38},[25,128],1049163,"Media Shuttle: New York - Moscow","Collaboration with Nam June Paik and Dimitri Devyatkin, combining footage from the US and Russia: Brezhnev on TV, a May Day parade, veterans in the park. 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Structured in six segments, this technical tour-de-force is a pyrotechnic fusion of sound and image, in which the dynamic visual imagery fully complements and heightens Sakamoto's staccato, percussive score. Fitzgerald and Garrin merge terrestrial and interplanetary worlds, in which Sakamoto's figure becomes an integral part of the landscape. 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To the accompaniment of the abrupt sonic interjections of Fluxus-affiliated composer Takehisa Kosugi, Yalkut's black and white film records brief, masked actions: an arm with clenching fist; a pair of faces, visible only about the eyes, which squint, gaze, and rest; Paik eating a slice of bread. 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Isolated in silence and darkness, the television set slips into the realm of the unheimlich — an uncanny object, at once familiar and unfamiliar. 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The magnetic field interferes with the television’s electronic signals, distorting the broadcast image into an abstract form that changes when the magnet is moved. Paik’s radical action undermines the seemingly inviolable power of broadcast television by transforming the TV set into a sculpture, one whose moving image is created by chance procedures and can be manipulated at will.",1.1317,"\u002F50ajvDRwZn3ZNMMhxhT2qJxwKr1.jpg","1965-01-01","646ea1d71130bd01ef3f752f",{"adult":4,"backdrop_path":40,"genre_ids":698,"id":699,"title":700,"original_language":28,"original_title":700,"overview":701,"popularity":702,"poster_path":703,"release_date":704,"softcore":4,"video":4,"vote_average":48,"vote_count":48,"credit_id":705,"department":15,"job":448,"media_type":38},[],1131204,"TV Buddha","One of Nam June Paik’s most iconic works, TV Buddha expresses the contrasts and parallels between East and West and between technology and spirituality in a very simple and direct way. 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Paik manipulates and merges pure electronic abstractions, footage captured \"live\" from television, prerecorded material, and images recorded in the studio, including the faces of WGBH producers Fred Barzyk and Olivia Tappan. Exploring the interactivity of video and audio synthesizers, Paik processes these images with live and prerecorded sounds.",0.9709,"\u002Fp28GyvPCw5L36cz9sS7BHnulZgs.jpg","5ecfe34de4b576001e2ba419",{"adult":4,"backdrop_path":40,"genre_ids":732,"id":733,"title":734,"original_language":28,"original_title":734,"overview":735,"popularity":736,"poster_path":737,"release_date":556,"softcore":4,"video":4,"vote_average":48,"vote_count":48,"credit_id":738,"department":15,"job":448,"media_type":38},[],725138,"Wrap around the World","This spectacular satellite link-up, coordinated by Paik, connected the United States, Brazil, France, Germany, Ireland, Israel, Japan and numerous other countries. 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With its electronic visuals and booming audio, interspersed with periods of silence, the immersive installation stands in stark contrast to the experience of its namesake.",0.9083,"\u002FeInya8NK8SVNQsyAkiUWA9HuuAH.jpg","1993-10-13","69777dfe860fce5007106e9a",{"adult":4,"backdrop_path":40,"genre_ids":806,"id":798,"title":799,"original_language":56,"original_title":799,"overview":800,"popularity":801,"poster_path":802,"release_date":803,"softcore":4,"video":4,"vote_average":48,"vote_count":48,"credit_id":807,"department":808,"job":809,"media_type":38},[25,662],"69777e0718d863818ceafba8","Crew","Creator",{"adult":4,"backdrop_path":40,"genre_ids":811,"id":798,"title":799,"original_language":56,"original_title":799,"overview":800,"popularity":801,"poster_path":802,"release_date":803,"softcore":4,"video":4,"vote_average":48,"vote_count":48,"credit_id":812,"department":639,"job":640,"media_type":38},[25,662],"69777e3b4f6b1541986951d5",{"adult":4,"backdrop_path":40,"genre_ids":814,"id":798,"title":799,"original_language":56,"original_title":799,"overview":800,"popularity":801,"poster_path":802,"release_date":803,"softcore":4,"video":4,"vote_average":48,"vote_count":48,"credit_id":815,"department":794,"job":795,"media_type":38},[25,662],"69778359a338b374341a13a6",{"adult":4,"backdrop_path":40,"genre_ids":817,"id":818,"title":819,"original_language":28,"original_title":819,"overview":820,"popularity":821,"poster_path":40,"release_date":686,"softcore":4,"video":4,"vote_average":48,"vote_count":48,"credit_id":822,"department":15,"job":448,"media_type":38},[],1703580,"Merce by Merce by Paik Part Two: Merce and Marcel","Nam June Paik and Shigeko Kubota remix interviews of Marcel Duchamp and Russell Connor.",0.8783,"6a17f26ffaa22a3b4515d8b9",{"profiles":824},[825],{"aspect_ratio":826,"height":827,"iso_3166_1":40,"iso_639_1":40,"file_path":19,"vote_average":48,"vote_count":48,"width":828},0.667,2334,1556]