{"id":331,"date":"1988-02-28T23:43:34","date_gmt":"1988-02-28T22:43:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mariavedder.sights1.atria.uberspace.de\/none\/2018\/pal-oder-never-the-same-color\/"},"modified":"2019-12-15T13:36:31","modified_gmt":"2019-12-15T12:36:31","slug":"pal-oder-never-the-same-color","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mariavedder.de\/en\/video\/1988\/pal-oder-never-the-same-color\/","title":{"rendered":"Museum Ludwig Cologne Germany: PAL oder Never The Same Color"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Film<br \/>\nand<br \/>\nVideo installation<br \/>\nVideo wall with 25 monitors<br \/>\n5:40 min., color, sound<br \/>\nProduction on U-matic-Low-Band und Betacam<br \/>\nMusic: Uwe Wiesemann, Gerhard Zilligen<br \/>\nCamera: Stephan Simon<br \/>\nEdit: Martina Kaimeier<br \/>\n<span lang=\"en\">Studio technicus:\u00a0Robby Gross<br \/>\nAssistant prop master:\u00a0Hari Hoffmann<br \/>\nResearch:\u00a0Kati H\u00f6tger<br \/>\nAssistant editor:\u00a0Beate Petersen<br \/>\n<\/span>Produced by Museum Ludwig Cologne, Germany<\/p>\n<p>2018 Technical reconstruction of the video wall by MIT List Visual Arts Center Cambridge\/USA<\/p>\n<p>The video installation is a work about cultural and technological color systems.<\/p>\n<p><em>PAL oder Never the Same Color<\/em>\u00a0was commissioned by the Museum Ludwig in Cologne. It was first presented in 1988, on the twenty-fifth anniversary of the introduction of the PAL (Phase Alternating Line) color-encoding system to the European Broadcasting Union. PAL is the system used to standardize color broadcasting in Europe (as well as in Australia and much of Asia, Africa, and South America), developed for analog television. NTSC, an acronym for the National Television System Committee but mockingly dubbed \u201cNever The Same Color,\u201d is the competing standard in North America. PAL was developed in Europe in an effort to remedy NTSC\u2019s shortcomings, while NTSC, the inferior system, remains the norm in the United States.<\/p>\n<p><em>PAL oder Never the Same Color <\/em>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. Also featured is a German logo that signaled a color broadcast (at a time when black-and-white was still standard) reading IN FARBE (in color). The video cuts to a more familiar color-bar test, and proceeds to individually test the electronic primary colors of television (red, green, and blue). For instance, a \u201cB\u201d for blue appears alongside footage of a sky, a blue rose, and finally, a standard blue screen. Not only, then, does the work nod to different technological systems for calibrating color across cultures, but also their differing symbolic referents. The blue flower, for instance, would be widely recognized as the Blue Flower of Romanticism in Germany.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Film and Video installation Video wall with 25 monitors 5:40 min., color, sound Production on U-matic-Low-Band und Betacam Music: Uwe Wiesemann, Gerhard Zilligen Camera: Stephan Simon Edit: Martina Kaimeier Studio technicus:\u00a0Robby Gross Assistant prop master:\u00a0Hari Hoffmann Research:\u00a0Kati H\u00f6tger Assistant editor:\u00a0Beate Petersen Produced by Museum Ludwig Cologne, Germany 2018 Technical reconstruction of the video wall by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mariavedder.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mariavedder.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mariavedder.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mariavedder.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mariavedder.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.mariavedder.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1940,"href":"https:\/\/www.mariavedder.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331\/revisions\/1940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mariavedder.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mariavedder.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mariavedder.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}