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Nam June Paik

Nam June Paik (1932 - 2006) was active/lived in New York, Florida / South Korea.  Nam Paik is known for Video artist, installation sculpture.

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Born in Seoul, South Korea, Nam June Paik became the pioneer of video art* in the United States.  He coined the phrase "electronic superhighway", and with his work, demonstrated how artists could use the medium of television creatively.  Part of his innovation was building a video synthesizer that allows video images to be reshaped and altered with color.  In this and other ways, he expanded "the traditional definitions of art-making . . . while simultaneously initiating and influencing creative developments in the technical realms of television editing and image making" (ARTNews 5/99).

In spite of a stroke suffered in 1997, he continued to work and focused on laser installations, which were featured in a 2000 retrospective at the Solomon R Guggenheim Museum in New York.  ARTNews magazine, May 1999, featured him as one of the top 25 most influential western artists.

He first began thinking about video as an art form in 1959   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 9191 characters.]  Artist bio

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Research resources

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