Currently browsing tag

Nam June Paik

Nam June Paik (20/7/1932-29/1/2006)

Nam June Paik (20/7/1932-29/1/2006) is commonly hailed as the “father” of new media art for his discoveries in music, video, performance, television broadcast and technological experimentation. He balanced a Utopian philosophy with a technical pragmatism and a subversive sense of humor, creating works that drew on chance encounters between ideas, …

Yiyun Kang, Vanishing, 2022

TRIBUTE: Nam June Paik, Part II

A key figure in the international avant-garde Fluxus movement, Nam June Paik is renowned for his large-scale sculptural installations featuring television monitors. …

Nam June Paik, Magnet TV, 1965 (1969), Courtesy Nam June Paik Art Center

TRIBUTE: Nam June Paik

  A key figure in the international avant-garde Fluxus movement, Nam June Paik is renowned for his large-scale sculptural installations featuring television …

Left: Nam June Paik, One Candle (Candle Projection)1989. Install view, Tate Modern 2019, Close-circuit television camera, tripod, candle on custom stand and four to six colour video projectors including modified CRT projectors, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main, © Estate of Nam June Paik. Right: Nam June Paik, Magnet TV 1965, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Purchased, with funds from Dieter Rosenkranz, © Estate of Nam June Paik

PRESENTATION: Nam June Paik

Nam June Paik internationally recognized as the “Father of Video Art,” created a large body of work including video sculptures, installations, performances, …