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TV Links Nam Jun Paik lives in Video art infamy as a key player in the video art movement during the 1960s, and continues to drive his own installation and the medium toward new aesthetic and philosophical heights today. His first solo exhibition was in Wuppertal, Germany in 1963, entitled "Exposition of Music--Electronic Television." His early famous piece, MAgnet TV, garnered much attention and praise for its interactivity and repostioning of the classic television. His famous "Magnet TV" (1965) was the first image of his work I ever saw. I find the way in which most of his work is grouned in the "television set" to be particularly appealing: simple and ethereal, the contorted "light-rays" dance and transform as you move the magnet. The set itself seems to refference the viewers own familiar and private association with the medium, draws him in, thus implicating and involving him in Paiks recontextualization of art, technology, and pop-culture. Submitted
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