GENERAL DESCRIPTION
In 1994, Nam June Paik created Music Box Based on Piano Piece Composed in Tokyo in 1954 for The Music Box Project, a commission of seventeen music boxes from different contemporary artists sponsored by the Swiss music box company Reuge. Paik, who was instrumental in establishing the video art genre, transposed an original score composed forty years earlier onto a Reuge 144-note music box mechanism. Inside the cabinet, a mini video recorder records a live feed of the music box, which is presented on the screen. By interlacing a contemporary audio-visual recording, a 200-year-old musical instrument, and a vintage television cabinet, Paik comments on temporality and the eventual obsoleteness of contemporary technology.
Adapted from
- Label text, 2015.
- Label text, Center for Creative Connections, "The Art of Communication," 2017.
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Artist/designers
Paik_Nam June: AAT: 500118744
Cultures
Geography
Process/materials
television sets: AAT: 300248636
Historical periods
Individuals
Subject terms
communication (function): AAT: 300137794
television (telecommunications system): AAT: 300249920
music boxes: AAT: 300042659
time-based works: AAT: 300185191
video art: AAT: 300102067
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PROVENANCE
By 1994: Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati [1]
1994: Dorace M. Fichtenbaum (1929-2015), purchased from above
2015: Dallas Museum of Art, bequest of Dorace M. Fichtenbaum
The main source for this provenance is information previously entered in TMS. Supporting documentation is noted.
[1] See letter from Michael E. Solway of Carl Solway Gallery to Dorace Fichtenbaum, dated April 20, 1994, copy in Dallas Museum of Art Collections Records object file.
AUDIO ASSETS
The Fichtenbaum Collection: Talk by Olivier Meslay, 267149968: UMO
VIDEO ASSETS
IMAGE ASSETS
WEB RESOURCES
- National Endowment for the Arts~Explore Paik's works and impact on time-based media.
- DMA Uncrated~Learn more about collector Dorace Fichtenbaum.
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General Description
In 1994, Nam June Paik created Music Box Based on Piano Piece Composed in Tokyo in 1954 for The Music Box Project, a commission of seventeen music boxes from different contemporary artists sponsored by the Swiss music box company Reuge. Paik, who was instrumental in establishing the video art genre, transposed an original score composed forty years earlier onto a Reuge 144-note music box mechanism. Inside the cabinet, a mini video recorder records a live feed of the music box, which is presented on the screen. By interlacing a contemporary audio-visual recording, a 200-year-old musical instrument, and a vintage television cabinet, Paik comments on temporality and the eventual obsoleteness of contemporary technology.
Adapted from
- Label text, 2015.
- Label text, Center for Creative Connections, "The Art of Communication," 2017.
Fun Facts
Archival Resources
Web Resources
- National Endowment for the Arts~Explore Paik's works and impact on time-based media.
- DMA Uncrated~Learn more about collector Dorace Fichtenbaum.
Notes
Catalogue essays
Artist/designers
Paik_Nam June: AAT: 500118744
Cultures
Geography
Process/materials
television sets: AAT: 300248636
Historical periods
Individuals
Subject terms
communication (function): AAT: 300137794
television (telecommunications system): AAT: 300249920
music boxes: AAT: 300042659
time-based works: AAT: 300185191
video art: AAT: 300102067
RELATED OBJECTS
PROVENANCE
By 1994: Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati [1]
1994: Dorace M. Fichtenbaum (1929-2015), purchased from above
2015: Dallas Museum of Art, bequest of Dorace M. Fichtenbaum
The main source for this provenance is information previously entered in TMS. Supporting documentation is noted.
[1] See letter from Michael E. Solway of Carl Solway Gallery to Dorace Fichtenbaum, dated April 20, 1994, copy in Dallas Museum of Art Collections Records object file.
AUDIO ASSETS
The Fichtenbaum Collection: Talk by Olivier Meslay, 267149968: UMO
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