Exhibition title: Before Projection: Video Sculpture 1974-1995, 2018

Artist: Maria Vedder

Artwork: PAL oder Never the Same Color 

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 that has been largely overlooked since its inception. 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 the restoration, digitalization and production of Maria Vedder’s artwork and international logistics connected to its transport from Berlin to New York. Along with video professionals and skilled analog technicians we managed to bring this piece back to life at the Sculpture Center.

Photo: Sculpture Center New York