An artist that was recently made known to me is Nam June Paik, a major innovator in new media art. His work mainly focused around artistic utilization of television monitors, not just as a canvas for moving image but as a physical sculpture.I too like to think that I share a certain aspect of this fascination for analog technology. Though my knowledge and experience is lacking, I see my creation of the wave vessel shown in the previous post as a first step and insight into this area of new media art.
The official website contains very interesting information and artwork, www.paikstudios.com
The development of artists through time has always been affected by new technologies and the ability to utilize them in ways originally not intended has always been the focus point for me when it comes to new media art.
For example, magnets are well known for their ability to break or irreversibly damage electronics, especially monitors. But it does look great. Paik's use of magnets to abstract the cathode ray tube representation of an image is the same as when I tried to enlarge the image produced by my wave vessel.
I used a magnet from a hard drive, he used..
Anyways, here are some stills of my vessel with and without the magnet "attachment"
I placed the magnet at the front of the screen and behind, lying on top of the ray tube.
Here are some closer cuts with the magnet resting behind the screen.
What I have achieved is nothing compared to some of the amazing sets I saw on youtube:
The patterns he has created here seem similar to mine, so i can establish that re-wiring of the cathode ray input has been done, but to achieve the effects he has, i cannot begin to speculate. But i have only recently been looking into Paik's work.
Ive had a few ideas for any future TV modification work I might try during the summer, I'l be looking about for variable intensity magnets, which can be controlled by various inputs.
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