Nam June Paik

• Korean-American
• Media and video art
• Born July 20, 1932

Electronic Superhighway

Electronic Superhighway

Electronic Superhighway

Cultural Context: 1995, currently at Smithsonian

Content: 51-channel video installation with neon

Formal Aspects: 40-feet long, 15 feet high. Countless scenes of American life.

Function: Artistic

Electronic Superhighway

Nam June Paik, V-yramid (detail), 1982, video installation, color, sound, with forty television sets

Nam June Paik, TV Garden, 1974 (2000), video installation with color television sets and live plants (Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum)

Doris Salcedo

• Born in 1958, from Bogota, Colombia
• Work focuses on commonplace items and pain, trauma, and loss.

Shibboleth

Shibboleth

Shibboleth

Shibboleth

Cultural Context: 2007-2008 at the Tate Modern.

Content: Long winding crack in ground

Formal Aspects: Wire mesh embedded in sides, perspective change

Function: show experience of immigrants in Europe

Examples of Salcedo's work

Doris Salcedo, Noviembre 6 y 7, 2002, Supreme Court, Bogotá

Doris Salcedo. “Atrabiliarios [Defiant],” 1992-93. Drywall, shoes, cow bladder, and surgical thread.

Doris Salcedo

• Often uses everyday objects
• Politically charged works dealing with loss, exclusion, and ethnic conflict

"Dysfunctional furniture"

Nam June Paik

• Also used everyday objects (TV)
• Technology allows us to communicate across boundaries, and transforms our world

"TV Buddha"

Sources:

• https://www.khanacademy.org/test-prep/ap-art-history/global-contemporary/a/doris-salcedo-shibboleth"

• https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/global-culture/conceptual-performance/a/paik-electronic-superhighway

• http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/exhibition/unilever-series-doris-salcedo-shibboleth

• http://www.paikstudios.com/
• http://americanart.si.edu/education/rs/artwork/#artwork
• http://www3.mcachicago.org/2015/salcedo/works/shibboleth/