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View of Nam June Paik’s Lindsey Tapes, part of the exhibition Machine as Seen at the End of the Mechanical Age, November 27, 1968–February 9, 1969. Photo: James Mathews. Photographic Archive. The Museum of Modern Art Archives, New York
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April 8, 2015 | Conservation, Media Conservation
Digitizing MoMA’s Video Collection
Three years after the advent of the Portapak (the first portable video recorder), MoMA showed Nam June Paik’s Lindsay Tape (1967) as part of the landmark 1968 exhibition The Machine as Seen at the End of the Mechanical Age, organized by K.G. Pontus Hultén. The piece consisted of two, half-inch reel-to-reel decks that were spaced 10 feet apart, with the tape (Paik’s original!), jerry-rigged together to allow it to loop continuously. After a week on view, the wear on the tape proved too much...
http://www.moma.org/explore/inside_out/2015/04/08/digitizing-momas-video-collection
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