Nam june paik

The late artist Nam June Paik, the "father of video art," would be 83 years old today.

Discover the groundbreaking work of Korean-American artist Nam June Paik, widely considered to be the father of contemporary video and television art.

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Magnet TV is an early example of Nam June Paik’s “prepared televisions,” in which he altered the television image or its physical casing. This work, which was featured in Paik’s first solo exhibition in New York, consists of a seventeen-inch black-and-white set on which an industrial-sized magnet rests. The magnetic field interferes with the television’s electronic signals, distorting the broadcast image into an abstract form that changes when the magnet is moved. Paik’s radical action…

Paik, Nam June: Mirage Stage

Given the recent opening of an exhibition of Nam June Paik‘s work at the National Gallery of Art, as well as the long-term commitment to media art the Smithsonian American Art Museum has made its Watch This! exhibition, I thought now would be a good time to talk with SAAM’s senior curator for media arts, John G. […]

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Nam June Paik: Tv Cello,2000. With TV cello 2000, Paik continued his interest in sound and video as distinctive aspects of his art. The cello, made up of television tubes encased in clear perspex...

Marking Buddha’s Birthday with Nam June Paik’s ‘TV Buddha’ ☸️ In ‘TV Buddha,’ one of Paik’s best-known works, a Buddha sculpture gazes into its own image on a TV screen. With the Buddha watching himself and the audience viewing the art installation, Paik shows the constant surveillance fueled by technology and the media. Hauser & Wirth first worked with the influential video and installation artist in 1993, when he presented the exhibition ‘Jardin Illumine’ in an empty industrial space in…

Lunchtime art talk on August 7, 2013 about this artist by Corrina Peipon, assistant curator.

Electronic Superhighway: Continental U.S., Alaska, Hawaii (1995) by American Korean artist Nam June Paik (1932-2006), on display at the American Art Museum in Washington DC, it has become an icon of America and worldwide in the information age. Is it is considered one of the masterpieces of Nam June Paik and it is really overwhelming…

Nam June Paik, TV is Kitsch, 1996 As we lose the analogue television signal, the impetus to get rid of old analogue televisions is even stronger. The cathode ray tube makes them bulky and heavy nex…

Nam June Paik installation

Features contemporary art, painting, sculpture, video, installations, photography and editions by established and emerging American and international artists.

Features contemporary art, painting, sculpture, video, installations, photography and editions by established and emerging American and international artists.

Nam June Paik pioneered video art through his use of television and new technology. These are his most famous works.

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