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PEOPLE, Page 96Anything on TV Tonight?By Emily Mitchell/Reported by Wendy Cole
What do you call a hookup of 300 screens, miles of cable and
spare bits of a British-made missile-guidance system that was part
of the Strategic Defense Initiative? Not Star Wars, for sure,
though it won't get off the ground either. Media master NAM JUNE
PAIK labels it Fin de Siecle II, and his video sculpture is part
of a show that opened last week at Manhattan's Whitney Museum.
Paik, 58, creates high-tech works "because I have nothing else to
do. I was an electronic-music composer in the '50s, but there were
too many of them and no electronic artists, so I changed." Starting
as a primitive -- "I found 13 used TV sets and went to work" --
he's entered the space age.