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In the period after World War II, with the spread of the term mass media, started to grow a desire to propagate motion pictures that did not required a film, a way to converge codes of a message to one kind of media, simultaneously elsewhere. Already with negative undertones, the concept of mass media and its effects on society have been criticized by various artists and this will be the topic addressed in this paper.
Like anything that is extremely popular and, somehow, encompasses the masses to the same idea, is criticized by minds with a macro view or a view of an outsider of the popular culture. The way that these artists have found to do this criticism was taking the quality of spreading information out of the television and turning it against itself of just objectifying and using the television as critical picture frame.
One of the most acclaimed artists in the area was Nam June Paik. Paik brought to life the piece The Moon is the Oldest TV (1964) summarizing the criticisms of television art. In this project, Paik manipulated the image in televisions to represent the phases of ...

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