Exhibition title: Before Projection: Video Sculpture 1974-1995, 2017

Artist: Maria Vedder

Artwork: PAL oder Never the Same Color, 1988

installation with 25 Monitors
5:40 min.
Music: Uwe Wiesemann, Gerhard Zillingen
Camera: Stephan Simon
Editing: Martina Kaimeter

Project Manager: Margarita Kudrina

The exhibition shines a spotlight on a historical moment and a body of work in the history of media art.inferior system, remains the norm in the United States. PAL oder Never the Same Color consists of twenty-five monitors arranged in a grid, with one TV set removed from the matrix and set aside. The monitors construct a wall in a manner reminiscent of bricks or pixels composing an image. Looped on the monitors is historic television footage designed to test color, including a host who presents herself in PAL and then NTSC to illustrate the difference. My work here involved management of restoration, digitalization and production of Maria Vedder’s piece and international logistics. Together with video professionals and skilled analog technicians, we managed to bring this piece back to life at MIT. The artwork was received with great interest and was later on show again as a part of an exhibition at the Sculpture Center in New York.

Photo: MIT List Visual Arts Center Cambridge/Boston