Nam june paik

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

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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…

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…

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

Korean-born artist Nam June Paik (1932-2006) is often called the father of modern video art. Think of Nam June Paik and you probably think of his massive tower of 1,003 TV sets entitled The More the Better (1988) which dominates the entrance to the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Gwacheon just outside Seoul, or