Video art was a major step forward in the art world. It was a way to show movement, not as multiple photos but as a more fluid movement. The invention of the portable video camera also revolutionized video. Korean born Nam June Paik was one of the first people in New York to buy a Portapak. His video installations explore the limits and defining characteristics of the medium. Paik's "altered TV's" displayed images altered by magnets combined with video feedback and other technologies that produced shifted patterns of shape and color. He not only used technology to show art, but he wanted people to realize that technology was humanized and also to stimulate viewers. He used his photos and videos in literal and also humorous ways. His still of TV Bra for Living Sculpture, shows a woman playing an instrument with mini televisions protruding from her breasts, like a TV bra. He uses humor for an actual serious subject. It was his view of the humanization of technology.
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