{"id":961,"date":"2018-01-01T10:20:42","date_gmt":"2018-01-01T09:20:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mariavedder.de\/none\/2019\/sculpture-center-new-york-2018-pal-oder-never-the-same-color\/"},"modified":"2019-12-15T13:35:14","modified_gmt":"2019-12-15T12:35:14","slug":"sculpture-center-new-york-2018-pal-oder-never-the-same-color","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mariavedder.de\/en\/video\/2018\/sculpture-center-new-york-2018-pal-oder-never-the-same-color\/","title":{"rendered":"Sculpture Center New York: PAL oder Never The Same Color"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"_2OvuK sc-TuwoP gTxxld\">\n<div class=\"_1dWiV\" dir=\"auto\" data-description-content=\"true\">\n<p class=\"first\">Exhibition<br \/>\n\u201cBefore Projection: Video Sculpture 1974\u20131995\u201d<br \/>\ncurated by Henriette Huldisch<br \/>\ncatalog<\/p>\n<p>with the video installation<br \/>\n\u201cPAL oder Never the Same Color\u201d<br \/>\n1988<br \/>\nvideo wall with 25 monitors<br \/>\n5:40 min.<br \/>\nmusic: Uwe Wiesemann, Gerhard Zillingen<br \/>\ncamera: Stephan Simon<br \/>\nediting: Martina Kaimeter<br \/>\ncommissioned production: 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><strong>PAL oder Never the Same Color<\/strong> 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 technically inferior system, remains the norm in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>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. Also featured is a German logo that signaled a color broadcast (at a time when black-and-white was still standard) that reads 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 have been more widely recognized as the Blue Flower from the Romantic tradition in Germany.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exhibition \u201cBefore Projection: Video Sculpture 1974\u20131995\u201d curated by Henriette Huldisch catalog with the video installation \u201cPAL oder Never the Same Color\u201d 1988 video wall with 25 monitors 5:40 min. music: Uwe Wiesemann, Gerhard Zillingen camera: Stephan Simon editing: Martina Kaimeter commissioned production: Museum Ludwig Cologne, Germany 2018 Technical reconstruction of the video wall by MIT [&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":[463,255,256,355,257],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mariavedder.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961"}],"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=961"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.mariavedder.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1939,"href":"https:\/\/www.mariavedder.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961\/revisions\/1939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mariavedder.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mariavedder.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mariavedder.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}