Paik's Television
He used TV as a medium. Paik was known for making TV-robots, TV-walls, and Budha installations watching TV.
"Paik was using a television set in a way that it had never been used before. A television set is intended to display an image fed to it by broadcast, a camera, or other video device. This is not what is happening here —there is no recording and there is no playback device. What Paik was doing is revealing the technology itself, and interrupting it. He used audio generators (which can be seen below each television set) to create an audio signal, which is fed through an amplifier to the cathode ray tube which generates the pattern. It's complicated, but you are essentially seeing an audio signal interpreted through the inner workings of the television set."
- Michael Mansfield, Former curator of Film and Media Arts at the Smithsonian American Art Museum
