Wednesday, February 01, 2006

Intermediate Studio - Permanent Flux - Research - Nam June Paik - Megatron/Matrix

This piece consists on is split onto two parts, the left called "Matrix" with 215 monitors and the right called "Megatron" with 150 monitors. All images that are shown on both are iconic images from both the East and West ranging from Korean rituals to David Bowie concerts. These images change all the time at random in beat with a sound recording and every so often the flag of Canada, Finland or Japan appears. Here Paik has created a piece that allows us to analyse and understand the difference between different cultures from around the world. The flags in the piece emphasise this need of understanding one another as geographically they refer to three points right, middle and left.

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