Dependency Map: Nam June Paik, TV Garden, 1974

Essential systems

• The source material storage which is of the original videotape that is 3/4 inch NTSC

Fragile systems

• Access to cathode ray tubes for emulation (potential for the system to turn obsolete)
• The greenhouse environment

Critical systems

• Possibilities for migration (porting to digital video, DVD general remastering)
• Possibilities for reinterpretation / the criteria

Vulnerable systems

• Reproducible source medium (video)
• Duplicable display mechanism (monitors)
• Its site-variability of the installation

In the end, the most critical dependencies are those that preserve the balance between technological display and the natural environment of this magical space created in Guggenheim. The work’s meaning emerges from this in-between space, and any changes, be it updated media formats, altered monitor types, or different spatial arrangements, reform the viewer’s experience of that relationship.