In opposition to the forecast of a totalitarian society where Big Brother would centralize knowledge and authority by use of television in George Orwell’s "1984,” Nam June Paik conducted a live broadcast of his satellite project, "Good Morning Mr. Orwell” all over the world as he connected New York and Paris in real-time. This was edited in a way to transpose or juxtapose the performances of avant-garde artists such as John Cage, Merce Cunningham and Charlotte Moorman in New York and Joseph Beuys and Urban Sax at the Pompidou Centre in one frame. The satellite during the 1980s was the product of the Cold War and the fruit of high technology invested with exorbitant amount of national capital. As a result, this technology was only accessible to few major broadcasts and the NASA. However, Paik thought of these satellite broadcast system as an opportunity to bridge different continents and culture, thereby realized a true art commons where people could globally communicate through arts and culture.
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