Nam June Paik

Nam June Paik in the news

Chloe Moretz: 'Infinite Loop' with Calvin Klein in South Korea

Created in tribute to the legendary video art pioneer, Nam June Paik, the exhibit featured a group of international artists whose works carry on the exploration of technology and participatory art ? a movement Paik helped ignite in the 1960s.

Ron Hays, video synthesizers, and Earth, Wind & Fire

By David Pescovitz at 2:55 pm Monday, May 7 In 1966, pioneering video artist Nam June Paik was an artist in residence at Boston's public broadcasting station WGBH. Paik and engineer Shuya Abe created the Paik-Abe video synthesizer, a fantastic device ...

Colour coding HRD, Samsung style

TV screen on the second floor corridor's ceiling could but be inspired by Nam June Paik, the Korean American artist, who has worked with a variety of media and is considered to be the first video artist and also credited with early use of the term ...

'Identities in Motion' at National Portrait Gallery

Video projections by the late Nam June Paik were beamed onto the courtyard's three-story-tall walls. Well-placed speakers created a surround-sound effect. The offstage dancers stood at the edge of a marked-off square, watching as their colleagues took ...