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Transcending obsolescence in technological ruins? Questions of conservation and presentation in Nam June Paik’s Something Pacific and Rembrandt Automatic

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dc.creatorHölling, Hanna B.
dc.date.accessioned2018-09-26T11:47:33Z
dc.date.available2018-09-26T11:47:33Z
dc.date.issued2013
dc.description.abstractStanding amidst the lively garden of the campus of the University of California, San Diego, I am looking at the many television sets, Buddhas, and elements of various electronic devices scattered around. As the first outdoor ensemble of the Korean video artist Nam June Paik (1932-2006), the installation Something Pacific (1986) was installed here almost three decades ago. Although meticulously trimmed, the grass grows over the sculptures just slightly – nature, as time, is taking over the arrangement. There is a particular feeling that is attached to this observation, a feeling of tranquillity, stasis, deactivation, perhaps meditation and somewhat religious emotion. This strangely-arranged ensemble, rather than putting malfunction on display, takes the viewer to the other side (perhaps to nostalgia), questioning the standard of what is expected of media – a desire or even demand to view a transmitted image. It is astonishing in its devotion to stillness and contemplation.en
dc.identifier.doi10.5117/NECSUS2013.2.HOLL
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/15101
dc.identifier.urihttps://www.necsus-ejms.org/test/transcending-obsolescence-in-technological-ruins-questions-of-conservation-and-presentation-in-nam-june-paiks-something-pacific-and-rembrandt-automatic/
dc.identifier.urihttps://mediarep.org/handle/doc/3284
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherAmsterdam University Press
dc.publisher.placeAmsterdam
dc.relation.isPartOfissn:2213-0217
dc.relation.ispartofseriesNECSUS. European Journal of Media Studies
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution Non Commercial No Derivatives 4.0 Generic
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
dc.subjectKonservierungde
dc.subjectRuinede
dc.subjectTechnologiede
dc.subjectFernsehende
dc.subjectVideotechnikde
dc.subjectAbfallde
dc.subjectconservationen
dc.subjectruinsen
dc.subjecttechnologyen
dc.subjecttelevisionen
dc.subjectvideoen
dc.subjectwasteen
dc.subject.ddcddc:791
dc.subject.personNam June Paik
dc.titleTranscending obsolescence in technological ruins? Questions of conservation and presentation in Nam June Paik’s Something Pacific and Rembrandt Automaticen
dc.typearticle
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dcterms.bibliographicCitationHölling, Hanna B. (2013): Transcending obsolescence in technological ruins? Questions of conservation and presentation in Nam June Paik’s Something Pacific and Rembrandt Automatic. In: NECSUS. European Journal of Media Studies 2 (2), 465–482. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5117/NECSUS2013.2.HOLL.
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local.coverpage2021-05-29T05:20:37
local.identifier.firstpublishedhttps://doi.org/10.5117/NECSUS2013.2.HOLL
local.source.epage482
local.source.issue2
local.source.spage465
local.source.volume2
local.subject.gndhttps://d-nb.info/gnd/118739018
local.subject.wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q158056

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