Nam june paik

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

An exhibition focusing on Nam June Paik (1932–2006), a visionary artist, thinker, innovator, and the “father of video art.”

A Feast of Astonishments. Charlotte Moorman and the Avant-Garde, 1960s–1980s // March 4–June 18, 2017

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 …

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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…

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A design and technology exhibition at V&A positions South Korea as "a leading cultural powerhouse in the era of social media and digital culture today.”

Portable God from 1989 presents a ceremonial altar decorated with Chinese characters. The contrast between the altar's original function as a place f (...)