Subtitles section Play video
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- [Announcer] The era of television.
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- [Announcer] The greatest advance in television.
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- [Richard] In the '60s and '70s, TV had become such an icon
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that, that artists couldn't resist just fooling with it.
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- It was all pretty much new,
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and it was really taking sort of your standard TV sets
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and just making it really crazy.
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But the inherent vice of televisions
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is it is a consumer electronic.
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- Unlike painting and sculptures,
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these electronic pieces, they could just go any time.
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That was always the big threat to this in a museum.
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- [Jennifer] You have these pieces that if it breaks down,
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what do you do?
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- The first person we call is CT Lui.
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- Lui's always been the first person we go to.
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- It's because of my father,
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they're able to be maintained, they're able to be shown,
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they're able to be put out in the world.
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- [Peter] Within the conservation field,
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this is critically necessary.
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You can see just the enthusiasm he has for this technology.
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(gentle music)
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(upbeat music)
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- [Jennifer] When people started using video,
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it was sort of this experimental media, so everybody was sort of wanting
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to know how it worked, what you could do with it.
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- Any major institution that has video art,
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probably my father has touched in some way.
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- [Jennifer] The Whitney.
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- [Jennifer] The Met.