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The exhibition was held to commemorate the 90th anniversary of the birth of the late Nam June Paik, a world-famous artist.
In the meantime, his representative work 'Many Wings', which could not be seen due to technical problems, is also back after 4 years.
By Lee Joo-sang, staff reporter.
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The 1,003 monitors, which symbolize the National Foundation Day, were created to commemorate the 1988 Seoul Olympic Games in the shape of a traditional 18.5m tall tower.
However, as CRT TVs were discontinued and technical problems were repeated, they had no choice but to stop operation in 2018.
After a long controversy, the 268 upper monitors were replaced with LCDs and the original shape was restored after 4 years.
Last month, I tested it for 8 hours a day and there was no problem.
[Kwon In-cheol / Curator, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea: No problems were found in video signals or temperature and humidity, and the overall operation is stable.
It will be open to the public in the second half of the year.]
A special exhibition for the 90th anniversary of the birth is being held at the Nam June Paik Art Center.
Robots that roamed the streets of New York in the 1960s show the harmony of technology and humans with monitors and radio speakers.
The TV cello was made for performance, and whenever the strings of the cello are turned on, an electronic sound is made and displayed as an image on the monitor.
In this way, Nam June Paik constantly explored the essence of imaging technology.
[Lee Soo-young / Curator of Nam June Paik Art Center: It has the greatest significance in that it pondered on how to re-establish the relationship between technological media and humans, and provided an answer to it through art.]
Contemporary artist Nam June Paik’s text score You can check the art and philosophy of the teacher, who was always ahead of them, even to the exhibition they reproduced.
(Video editing: Lee Seung-hee, VJ: Oh Se-gwan)