From Wagner to VR
Good Morning, Mr. Orwell (1984) Satellite video art and the mixing of cultures in the electronic global village
Notes:
-- In 1984, Paik produced the satellite work Good Morning, Mr. Orwell, broadcast simultaneously by American and French television stations to the US, Cnada, France, Germany and Korea. Paik used this story to suggest the inherent dangers of satellite telev
-- Paik has striven in this work to unite the Global Village in what he calls a “multiemporal, multispatial symphony...”in conveying information, television no longer creates a dialectic, but a feedback.”
(Christine van Assche) -- “George Orwell’s 1984 provided inspiration for Paik to launch electronic images conceived in, and remotely controlled from, Pris. in media history, the event will count as the first program every created by an artist and transmit
-- Broadcast from the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris and WNET-TV studio in NY, it consisted of an hour-long telecast of heterogeneoous images alternating in rapid sequence, both dijointed and joined in elctronic collage.