Generative Art Timeline · Chapter 6: Personal Computer Era (1980s)

1982

V-yramid by Nam June Paik

Artwork · North America

V-yramid by Nam June Paik
Trevor Patt. Flickr. "IMG_5583.” 2015. flickr.com

Consisting of forty televisions, V-yramid was one of Paik’s largest video installations. It was made on behalf of the artist’s retrospective at the Whitney. Like much of Paik’s work, the piece focuses on duality: contemporary vs. traditional, technology vs. handcraft, high vs. low culture.

Text by Peter Bauman. Generative Art Timeline, Le Random.

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Nam June Paik

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video art

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Installation Art, video art
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television, video installation
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Nam June Paik
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V-yramid
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Whitney Museum of American Art

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