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From music to Fluxus. Paik was well-positioned to understand how media technologies were evolving: in the 1960s he was one of the very first people to use televisual technologies as an artistic medium, earning him the title of “father” of video art.
Electronic Superhighway playfully engages three such forces--the US interstate highway system, cable television, and the emergent internet of the 1990s. In this TV map, neon-outlined states play a mix of borrowed and original footage.
7 de may. de 2021 · Robots, video synthesizers, experimental music—discover the multidimensional creative world of electronic artist Nam June Paik. Working across media since t...
6 de dic. de 2023 · Nam June Paik, Electronic Superhighway: Continental U.S., Alaska, Hawaii. by Tina Rivers Ryan. The “father of video art” argued that electronic communication, not transportation, unites the modern world. “Preserving Nam June Paik’s Electronic Superhighway.”.
Electronic Superhighway: Continental U.S., Alaska, Hawaii, commonly referred to as Electronic Superhighway, is an art installation created by Nam June Paik in 1995. Since 2006, the work has been on display in the Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM) in Washington, D.C.
When Nam June Paik came to the United States in 1964, the interstate highway system was only nine years old, and superhighways offered everyone the freedom to "see the U.S.A. in your Chevrolet."
Presciently, Paik’s report forecasted the emergence of what he called a “broadband communication network”—or “electronic super highway”—comprising not only television and video, but also “audio cassettes, telex, data pooling, continental satellites, micro-fiches, private microwaves and eventually, fiber optics on laser frequencies.”
