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Oct 17, 2014 · Nam June Paik (1932-2006) developed an experimental art practice that aimed to humanize technological experience, bridging music, performance, sculpture, technology, video and installation. Born in Seoul, Korea, he was trained as a classical pianist. During the Korean War, his family had to flee the country.
Jul 20, 2020 · Below, a look back at some of Paik’s most famous works, many of which are included in the show traveling the world right now. Nam June Paik, Hand and Face, 1961. Courtesy Electronic Arts ...
- Alex Greenberger
- Childhood
- Early Training and Work
- Mature Period
- Later Life
- The Legacy of Nam June Paik
Nam June Paik was born into a bourgeois manufacturing family in 1932 Seoul, during a turbulent time when Korea was under Japanese rule (1910-1945). Whereas most Koreans were only granted access to a primary school education under restrictions by the Japanese, Paik was trained as a classical pianist from a very young age. Perhaps this was due to the...
In 1956, Paik received a BA in aesthetics from the University of Tokyo, where he also studied music and art history and wrote his thesis on the Austrian composer Arnold Schoenberg. In 1957, he went to West Germany, which had recently emerged as a bustling center of new music and performance. While there, he studied with composer Thrasybulus Georgia...
Paik had been in a perpetual self-imposed "exile," until he settled in New York. The city's diversity was a source of inspiration to him and he often spoke of the heterogeneity of New York as being the great strength and possibility of the United States. The television, entertainment, and communications industries, where his lifelong interest lay, ...
In 1996, Paik suffered a serious stroke which limited his physical mobility. As he found himself losing health and strength, his work became more urgent. As his cherished ability to travel all over the world to find sites for his projects was sharply curtailed, Paik's style became characterized by a more self-reflective process in which he chose ne...
Nam June Paik's enormous contribution to the history of late-20th-century art largely stems from his position as the first major Video artist. His groundbreaking exploration and use of modern technologies laid the foundation for a new generation of artists in today's complex media culture. Now media arts are pervasive across the international art w...
- Korean American
- July 20, 1932
- Seoul, South Korea
- January 29, 2006
Nam June Paik [a] (Korean: 백남준; RR: Baek Nam-jun; July 20, 1932 – January 29, 2006) was a Korean artist. He worked with a variety of media and is considered to be the founder of video art . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] He is credited with the first use (1974) of the term "electronic super highway" to describe the future of telecommunications.
Nov 28, 2022 · Nam June Paik is one of those artists with a purpose, a precise purpose: to combine art and technology to create a sharing experience that tells about all of us and our daily lives. And today we discover his story through his works in the exhibition that has just ended at the Tate Modern in London. Considered the father of 1960s video art Nam ...
May 6, 2009 · Image: Nam June Paik, Beuys Voice, 1990 (Courtesy of James Cohan Gallery) If we look back forty years, video’s ability to continuously process new data in real time and render it for visual display make it an important correlate technology for contemporary computing systems. In 1965, SONY placed the first black and white portapak video camera on the commercial market. The new technology ...
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For. Nam June Paik transformed video into an artist’s medium with his media-based art that challenged and changed our understanding of visual culture. As Paik wrote in 1969, he wanted “to shape the TV screen canvas as precisely as Leonardo, as freely as Picasso, as colorfully as Renoir, as profoundly as Mondrian, as violently as Pollock and ...
