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Nam June Paik
Nam June Paik was a South Korean artist. He worked with a variety of media and is considered to be the founder of video art. He is credited with the first use (1974) of the term "electronic super highway" to describe the future of telecommunications.
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culture · South Korean video artist (1932–2006) · video artist · university teacher · composer · painter · photographer · television producer · installation artist · multimedia artist · pioneer · visual artist · also Nam June Paik, Naum June Paik, Paik
Born 20 July 1932 · Died 29 January 2006 · Q158056
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2023· 5 entries
Wall Street Journal: ‘Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV’ Review: Artist on the Edge
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Hyperallergic: The Anarchic Spirit of Nam June Paik
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Artnet: ‘This Is the World Nam June Paik Imagined’: The First Documentary on the Father of Video Art Celebrates His Prescience and Sense of Play
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Yahoo: Nam June Paik Documentary, About Visionary Korean American Artist, Acquired for World Sales by Dogwoof (EXCLUSIVE)
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2022· 1 entry
Bay Area Reporter: Televisionary: Nam June Paik retrospective at SF MOMA
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2018· 1 entry
Artnet: In Manila, a New Nam June Paik Show Is Taken as a Sign of the Growth of the Contemporary Art Market in the Philippines
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2015· 1 entry
Gagosian Gallery acquired the right to represent Paik's artistic estate
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2014· 1 entry
Asia Society: Nam June Paik & TV Lab: License to Create
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2012· 1 entry
insider.si.edu: “Nam June Paik: Global Visionary” Presents Unprecedented Look Into the Artist’s Life and Creative Process
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2011· 1 entry
An exhibition centered on Paik's video sculpture One Candle, Candle Projection (1988–2000) opened at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D
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2007· 3 entries
Awarded Order of Cultural Merit, 1st class (2007).
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Awarded Order of Cultural Merit (2007).
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For his Wright Brothers, a 1995 propeller-plane-like tableau comprising 14 TV monitors
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2006· 4 entries
Died 2006-01-29.
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In Miami, Florida, due to complications from a stroke
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“I am a poor man from a poor country, so I have to be entertaining every second.”
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Nam June Paik's estate asked a group of museums for proposals on how each would use the archive
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2002· 1 entry
Was revealed to be a Korean who collaborated with the Japanese during the latter's occupation of Korea, owned a major textile manufacturing firm
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2001· 2 entries
Awarded Wilhelm Lehmbruck Award (2001).
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Released album “Works 1958.1979”.
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2000· 2 entries
At the Guggenheim Museum in New York City, with the commissioned site-specific installation Modulation in Sync (2000) integrating the unique space of the museum into the exhibition itself
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Created a millennium satellite broadcast entitled Tiger is Alive and in 2004 designed the installation of monitors and video projections Global Groove 2004 for the Deutsche Guggenheim in Berlin
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1998· 1 entry
Awarded Kyoto Prize in Arts and Philosophy (1998).
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1997· 1 entry
Won Goethe Medal (1997).
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1996· 3 entries
In 1996, Paik had a stroke that paralyzed his left side.
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Paik had a stroke that paralyzed his left side
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Left him partially paralyzed for the last decade of his life
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1995· 2 entries
Awarded Ho-Am Prize in the Arts (1995).
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Awarded Fukuoka Asian Culture Prize (1995).
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1991· 1 entry
Awarded Goslarer Kaiserring (1991).
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1988· 2 entries
Awarded Worthy of the City presented by Charlie Luken for Metrobot (1988).
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Paik installed The More, The Better in the atrium of the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon
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1986· 1 entry
Awarded Maya Deren Award (1986).
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1984· 1 entry
Nam June Paik increasingly explored symbols of global exchange with Asia, such as the Silk Road and Eurasia
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1979· 1 entry
Released album “Klangraum Takis / Duett Paik/Takis”.
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1978· 1 entry
Paik collaborated with Dimitri Devyatkin to produce a light hearted comparison of life in two major cities, Media Shuttle: New York-Moscow on WNET
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1977· 2 entries
Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship (1977).
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Married the video artist Shigeko Kubota
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1976· 1 entry
As a Kaldor Public Art Project in Sydney, Australia
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1974· 2 entries
At the United States Information Center in Seoul
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Nam June Paik used the term "super highway" in application to telecommunications, which gave rise to the opinion that he may have been the author of the phrase "Information Superhighway"
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1971· 1 entry
Paik and Moorman made TV Cello, a cello formed out of three television sets stacked up on top of each other and some cello strings
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1969· 1 entry
Performed TV Bra for Living Sculpture, in which Moorman wore a bra with small TV screens over her breasts
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1967· 1 entry
Sony introduced the first truly portable VTR, which featured a portable power supply and handheld camera, the Sony Portapak
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1965· 1 entry
Paik acquired a Sony TCV-2010, a combination unit that contained the first consumer-market video-tape recorder CV-2000
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1964· 2 entries
And began working with cellist Charlotte Moorman to create performance art
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Paik immigrated to the United States of America and began living in New York City, where he began working with classical cellist Charlotte Moorman, to combine his video, music, and performance
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1963· 2 entries
At an exhibition known as Exposition of Music-Electronic Television at the Galerie Parnass in Wuppertal in which he scattered televisions everywhere and used magnets to alter or distort their images
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At Galerie Parnass in Wuppertal, Germany
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1961· 1 entry
Paik returned to Tokyo to explore the country's advanced technologies
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1957· 1 entry
To study music history with composer Thrasybulos Georgiades at LMU Munich
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1956· 1 entry
Where he wrote a thesis on the composer Arnold Schoenberg
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1950· 1 entry
During the Korean War, Paik and his family fled from their home in Korea, first fleeing to Hong Kong, but later moved to Japan
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1932· 1 entry
Born 1932-07-20.
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