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Nam June Paik [a] (Korean: 백남준; RR: Baek Namjun; July 20, 1932 – January 29, 2006) was a South Korean artist.He worked with a variety of media and is considered to be the founder of video art.
Nam June Paik (1932–2006) was an artist born in South Korea who migrated to the United States in the 1960s, around the same time he began creating Fluxus works. In 1963, Paik was the first artist to create works using distorted images on a television. Two years later, he became the first artist to use a portable video camera.
TV Buddha is a video sculpture by Nam June Paik first produced in 1974, but exists in multiple versions. [1] [2] In the work, a Buddha statue watches an image of itself on a TV screen. The screen's image is produced by a live video camera trained on the Buddha statue. [3] [4] [5]
The More, the Better by Nam June Paik pushed the boundaries of traditional art forms and introduced new possibilities for artistic expression. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Paik's innovative use of television and interactive technology paved the way for future generations of artists working with video and new media.
Their radically untraditional works included, for example, the video art of Nam June Paik and Charlotte Moorman and the performance art of Joseph Beuys and Wolf Vostell. During the early years of Fluxus, the often playful style of the Fluxus artists resulted in them being considered by some to be little more than a group of pranksters .
The Nam June Paik Art Center Prize was established in 2009. [4] It is "awarded to artists and theorists whose works are . . . amalgamating art and technology, pursuing new ways of communication, interacting with audiences, and fusing and conflating music, performance and visual art." [4] The prize includes a solo exhibition at the Center. [5] [6]
Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV is a 2023 documentary film by Amanda Kim about video artist Nam June Paik. [1] Summary. The film traces the life of the artist ...
Metrobot is an electronic public art sculpture designed by Nam June Paik. At the time of its unveiling in 1988, it was Paik's first outdoor sculpture and his largest. [1] Since 2014, it has stood in front of the Contemporary Arts Center (CAC) on Walnut Street in downtown Cincinnati, Ohio, United States. [2] [3]