Yves Behar and Samsung design a television with artful intentions, a television delivering 100 curated art pieces while turned "off".

The partnership between Korean electronics giant Samsung and Yves Béhar’s design firm fuseproject continues to be a fruitful, if not unexpected creative outlet for envisioning the television beyond an electronic device. Their latest endeavor, The Frame, takes a more artful approach to what we watch.

A large SUHD display, The Frame is a television inhabited with a split personality. While on, The Frame is designed to operate like any other modern television for all binge-worthy content. It’s when The Frame is switched off and into “Art Mode” the set reveals its more unique feature (though not wholly unique when considering the crowding market of digital art displays by the likes of Electronic Objects and Meural). Noting most televisions are watched for only a few hours per day, Samsung and Béhar equipped their television to showcase over 100 paintings and artwork from 38 different artists, including artist Barry McGee and photographer Todd Eberle. Each piece was scanned for digital display, the catalog is the curated vision of Bay Area art and culture consultant, Elise Van Middelem. Worries of higher energy bills are allayed by The Frame’s ability to turn itself on and off automatically; motion and light sensors built into the front controls the display, turning The Frame completel...