MMCA Talk: Dieter Daniels “Video Installation & Live Television: the variable media concept in the work of Paik Nam June”
Title Video Installation & Live Television: the variable media concept in the work of Paik Nam June
Date and time 26 July 2023 (Wed), 15:00~17:00
Venue Seminar Room 2, 3rd Floor, Education Center, MMCA Seoul
Speaker Dieter Daniels (Professor of Art History and Media Theory, University of the Arts Leipzig, Germany)
Content This lecture discusses two examples for the relation of Live Television and Video Installation in the work of Paik Nam June. Firstly Global Groove(1973) and TV Garden(1974), secondly Wrap Around the World(1988) and The More, The Better(1988). Paik's video installations have never been a fixed and frozen entity. They include a certain degree of variability: adaptations to the exhibition space, updates in technology, and conceptual revisions. For these kinds of artworks, museum collections have to develop new strategies of permanence through maintenance and re-interpretations. The concept of “variable media” is one way to cope with these demands.
* This lecture is a public program following MMCA Studies 14: Data Society and Art (2022) to continue the further discussion on art based on data. Following the lecture, we will discuss the contextualization of Paik Nam June’s The More,The Better in global art history and its challenges as a museum collection.
Speaker's Bio
Dieter Daniels has been Professor of Art History and Media Theory at the University of the Arts Leipzig, Germany since 1993. He has published on Marcel Duchamp, John Cage, Paik Nam June, fluxus, media art, and media theory. He is the author of Video Theory (2022, co-author), The Ready-Made Century (2019), Tele-Gen: Art, Television (2015), and Sounds Like Silence. John Cage: 4' 43''-Today's Silence (2012), Audiovizuology volumes 1, 2 (2010/11), From Ready-Made to Cyberspace (2003), Duchamp and Others: Models of Artistic Influence in the Modern Era (1992).
Schedule
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Time
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Contents
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Speakers
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15:00-15:10
| Introduction
| Tiffany Yeon Chae (Curator, MMCA Seoul) |
15:10-16:10
| Lecture “Video Installation & Live Television: the variable media concept in the work of Nam June Paik” | Dieter Daniels (Professor of Art History and Media Theory, University of the Arts Leipzig, Germany) |
16:10-17:00
| QnA and discussion
| Dieter Daniels and participants
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Remarks
- Sequentive translation in English-Korean is provided, and no live broadcasting is planned.
- Event bookings are available on MMCA hompage from 17 July (Mon) 12:00 to 26 July (Wed) 12:00.
- This event is free of charge and will be open to walk-ins after pre-registration ends on the MMCA hompage.
- Please be seated at least 10 minutes prior to the event if you have pre-booked. Walk-ins will be accepted after this time.
- If you enter the museum's Exhibition Center, the route is complicated. Entry via the Education Center is recommended.
