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A 1995 video installation by Nam June Paik that explores the intersections of media, geography, and identity. The artwork features fifty-one channels of footage, neon states, and a closed-circuit camera, reflecting Paik's vision of the electronic superhighway.
- Nam June Paik
Nam June Paik (1932–2006), internationally recognized as the...
- Time-Based Media
Electronic Superhighway: Continental U.S., Alaska, Hawaii...
- Nam June Paik
Two years later, Paik revisited this work in Electronic Superhighway: Continental U.S., Alaska, Hawaii, placing over 300 TV screens into the overall formation of a map of the United States outlined in colored neon lights (see image at the top of the page and the detail below).
Robots, video synthesizers, experimental music—discover the multidimensional creative world of electronic artist Nam June Paik.
Paik's investigations into video and television and his key role in transforming the electronic moving image into an artist's medium are part of the history of the media arts.
Electronic Superhighway: Continental U.S., Alaska, Hawaii, commonly referred to as Electronic Superhighway, is an art installation created by Nam June Paik in 1995. Since 2006, the work has been on display in the Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM) in Washington, D.C.
6 de dic. de 2023 · Nam June Paik, Electronic Superhighway: Continental U.S., Alaska, Hawaii, 1995, fifty-one channel video installation (including one closed-circuit television feed), custom electronics, neon lighting, steel and wood; color, sound, roughly 15 x 40 x 4 feet ( Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.; photo: Steven Zucker, CC BY ...
When Nam June Paik came to the United States in 1964, the interstate highway system was only nine years old, and superhighways offered everyone the freedom to "see the U.S.A. in your Chevrolet."
