Nam June Paik
Nam June Paik (July 20, 1932 – January 29, 2006) was a Korean-born American artist. He is often thought to be the first video artist.[1]
| Nam June Paik | |
|---|---|
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| Korean name | |
| Hangul | 백남준 |
| Hanja | 白南準 |
| Revised Romanization | <span title="Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Language/data/ISO 639 override' not found. transliteration" class="Unicode" style="white-space:normal; text-decoration: none">Baek Nam-jun |
| McCune–Reischauer | <span title="Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Language/data/ISO 639 override' not found. transliteration" class="Unicode" style="white-space:normal; text-decoration: none">Paek Nam-jun |
In 1971, he made a cello out of three television sets and some cello strings. Then he got a famous cellist to play the cello.[2]
Starting with his debut, he started the neo-dadaism movement. In 2006, he died of natural causes.
Nam June Paik Media
Pre-Bell-Man, statue in front of the 'Museum für Kommunikation', Frankfurt am Main, Germany
1993 Video Sculpture (1993) installed at the NJN Building in Trenton, New Jersey
The More, The Better (1988), in the atrium of the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon
Entrance to the Nam June Paik retrospective at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in 2021.
References
- ↑ Noah Wardrip-Fruin and Nick Montfort, The New Media Reader, MIT Press, 2003, p227. ISBN 0262232278
- ↑ Cox, Michael (1997). Awful Art. Scholastic Children's Books. ISBN 0-590-19262-0.