Magnet TV for intellectuals 1

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Magnet TV is a video art piece by Nam June Paik. The magnet’s force of attraction hindered the cathode rays from filling the screen’s rectangular surface. This pushed the field of horizontal lines upward thus creating baffling forms within the magnet’s gravitational field. If the magnet maintained its position, the picture remained stabile—apart from minimal changes caused by fluctuations in the flow of electricity. Moving the magnet caused endless variations on the forms. (source: Medienkunstnetz)

And because in this Balkanic-thinking region we can’t invent anything but the Maradona style of exchanging money in the streets, somebody called the new TV station Magnet TV. Yet another way of making money flow – from the illicit to legit.

Kayla has something to say about it too. I don’t think it will be a TV channel for „intellectuals”, because they describe it as a „general profile station” and because doing something so targeted (a cultural station) is like killing your own business.

So, let’s drink for that and have some „mici”!