University of Tokyo, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
Known for
Video art, performance, installation art
Movement
Fluxus
Spouse
Shigeko Kubota
(m. 1977)
Relatives
Jinu (grandson) Ken Paik Hakuta (nephew)
Awards
Geumgwan Order of Cultural Merit (2007)
Korean name
Hangul
백남준
Hanja
白南準
Revised Romanization
Baek Namjun
McCune–Reischauer
Paek Namjun
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.[3]
Born in Seoul to a wealthy business family, Paik trained as a classical musician, spending time in Japan and West Germany, where he joined the Fluxus collective and developed a friendship with experimental composer John Cage. He moved to New York City in 1964 and began working with cellist Charlotte Moorman to create performance art. Soon after, he began to incorporate televisions and video tape recorders into his work, acquiring growing fame. A stroke in 1996 left him partially paralyzed for the last decade of his life.
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^Noah Wardrip-Fruin and Nick Montfort (2003). The New Media Reader. MIT Press. p. 227. ISBN 0-262-23227-8.
^Judkis, Maura (December 12, 2012). ""Father of video art" Nam June Paik gets American Art Museum exhibit (Photos)". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on August 9, 2017. Retrieved September 5, 2017.
^Danzico, Matt; O'Brien, Jane (December 17, 2012). "Visual artist Nam June Paik predicted internet age". BBC News online. Archived from the original on April 11, 2017. Retrieved December 18, 2012.
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having begun experimenting with the style in May 2021, Rising credits NamJunePaik as the originator of this type of video art. Having blogged about the...
century. Among the significant artists represented in its collection are NamJunePaik, Jenny Holzer, David Hockney, Richard Hunt, Georgia O'Keeffe, Ching...
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George Brecht, Robert Watts, Wolf Vostell, Dieter Roth, Yoko Ono, NamJunePaik, Walter De Maria's Ocean Music, Milan Knížák's Broken Music Composition...
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Global Information
Geumgwan Order of Cultural Merit (2007)