Generative Art Timeline · Chapter 6: Personal Computer Era (1980s)
1982
V-yramid by Nam June Paik
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, fact-checked September 2026.
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People
Movements
video art
Filed under
- Ideas
- Installation Art, video art
- Technologies
- television, video installation
- People
- Nam June Paik
- Works
- V-yramid
- Organisations
- Whitney Museum of American Art
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- 1965 · “Electronic Art" Exhibition by Nam June Paik at Galeria Bonino (New York)
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- 1969 · TV as a Creative Medium, at the Howard Wise Gallery
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- Timeline Ch 4—Digital Era Pt I (1960s) with Dr A Michael Noll — listen with transcript on Le Random (07 Sep 2023, 60 min). Transcript mentions Nam June Paik. Apple Podcasts · Spotify
- Timeline Ch 6—Personal Computer Era (1980s) with Mark Wilson, Copper Giloth, Dan Sandin, David Em, William Latham, Stephen Todd, Darcy Gerbarg & Geoff Davis — listen with transcript on Le Random (08 Feb 2024, 85 min). Transcript mentions Nam June Paik. Chapter 6’s episode. Apple Podcasts · Spotify
- Digital Curators Series 02—Regina Harsanyi & Jon Ippolito on Preserving the Digital — listen with transcript on Le Random (04 Nov 2024, 79 min). Transcript mentions Nam June Paik. Apple Podcasts · Spotify