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[Pioneer of Video Art]

Nam Jun Paik, 1932 ~ 2006
Studied the History of Music at Munich University; meets Karlheinz Stockhausen; studies Composition at Freiburg Conservatory

Munich, 1956 - 1958

1971

Receives Kyoto Award Arc Double face. Three channel video installation with forty-two monitors and metal structure.

Hongkong, 1950

1965

1974

1998

New Yrok, 2000

Magnet TV.

Family Robot: Grandmother (left) and Family of Robot Grandfather (right) single channel video sculpture with vintage television and radio casings and monitors.

1986

TV cello. The three televisions in this work originally displayed three images. A direct feed of the immediate performance, a video collage of other cellists,

The Rehabilitation of Genghis Khan By rehabilitating Genghis Khan, Paik addresses the idea of cultural exchange with a simple and clever proposal of bicycle as a literal portrayal of exchange.

1993

1985

Receives National Arts Club Award Retrospective The Worlds of Nam June Paik,opens at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

Miami, 2006
TV Buddha. Closed Circuit video installation with bronze sculpture

1995

Nam June Paik

Born in Seoul the fifth son of a textile manufacturer

Tyokyo, 1956

Newyork, 1965

Seoul, 1932

The Paik family flees from the Korean War,

He was an inspring video artist and passed away. He has still influenced grealtyl on other artists

1988

Paik graduated from the University of Tokyo, concluding his studies of the History of Art and the History of Music.

Electronic Superhighway: Continental US. Forty seven channel and closed circuit video installation with 313 monitors, neon, and steel structure;

Megatron/Matrix Eight channel computer driven video installation with 215 monitors,

First solo exhibition, "Electronic Art"

Tv Garden Single channel video installation with live plants and monitors, color, sound, dimensions variable.

The More the Better. Three channel video installation with 1,003 monitors and steel structure.

2005
Ommah. Taken by Sarah Stierch.

Nam June Paik, 1932 - 2006 Explanation of his artworks

Klavier Intergral, 1958-63 Upright piano with alterations and additions, 53" X 55" X 17" Detail Museum Moderner Kunst Ludwig Foundation, Vienna Former Hahn Collection Photo J Huffman Paik with Demagnetizer (1965) in his Canal Street studio, New York Electronic Opera No. 1 (1969) Single channel videotape, 4 minutes 30 seconds, color, sound. Nam June Paik in collaborations with John J. Godfrey, Global Groove, 1973. Single channel videotape, 28 minutes 30 seconds, color, sound. TV Buddha (1974) Closed Circuit video installation with bronze sculpture Tv Garden (1974). Single channel video installation with live plants and monitors, color, sound, dimensions variable. Video Fish (1975). Three channel video installation with aquariums, water, live fish, and variable number of monitors. Arc Double face (1985) Three channel video installation with forty two monitors and metal structure Video Flag: (1985) Two channel video installation with eighty-four monitors, color, sound. 74 x 138 inches Above: Family of Robot: Mother (left) and Family of Robot: Father (right) (1986), single channel video sculptures with vintage television and radio castings and monitors; color, silent; mother: 78x61.5x20.75 inches Below: Family of Robot: Hi tech baby (1986). Single channel video sculpture with television casing, thirteen monitors, and aluminum structure, color, silent, 52.5x37.8 inches. Family Robot: Grandmother (left) and Family of Robot Grandfather (right) 1986, single channel video sculpture with vintage television and radio casings and monitors. The More the Better, (1988) Three channel video installation with 1,003 monitors and steel structure; color, sound; approx. 60 ft. high. Megatron/Matrix *(1995) Eight channel computer driven video installation with 215 monitors, color, sound. Megatron: 126x270x24 inches. Matrix: 128x128x24

Megatron/Matrix *(1995) Eight channel computer driven video installation with 215 monitors, color, sound. Megatron: 126x270x24 inches. Matrix: 128x128x24 Electronic Superhighway: Continental US (1995). Forty seven channel and closed circuit video installation with 313 monitors, neon, and steel structure; color, sound, approx. 15x32x4 feet. Above: Video Piano (1999) Two channel and closed circuit video installation with piano, bench, fourteen monitors, and video camera, color, sound Below: My Faust (1989-91) Three channel video sculpture with twenty five monitors, color, silent. 104.75x50x31 inches. Three Elements, Triangle 1997-2000 Photo J Huffman

Biography
NAM JUNE PAIK BIOGRAPHY June 20th, 1932 Born in Seoul (Korea), the fifth son of a textile manufacturer 1950 The Paik family flees from the Korean War, first to Hong Kong, and later to Japan 1956 Paik graduates from the University of Tokyo, concluding his studies of the History of Art and the History of Music with a thesis on Arnold Schonberg 1956-58 Studies the History of Music at Munich University; meets Karlheinz Stockhausen; studies Composition at Freiburg Conservatory 1958-63 Meets John Cage; works in the Studio fur elektronische Musik at WDR, Cologne 1959-62 Has appearances with pieces of his action music; Stockhausen's "Originale" is performed in Cologne 1963 Participates in "Fluxus. Internationale Festspiele neuester Musik", Wiesbaden; "Exposition of Musik / Electronic Television", the first exhibition including TV monitors, is shown at Galerie Parnass, Wuppertal

1963-64 Travels to Japan; meets Shuya Abe; experiments with electromagnets and color television; visits New York, collaborates with Charlotte Moorman 1965 First solo exhibition "Electronic Art" in the USA at Galeria Bonino, New York; buys the first portable video recorder 1966-69 First multi-monitor installations; works with magnetically distorted TV recordings; "Electronic Opera No. 1" is performed at the live program "The Medium is the Medium", GBH-TV, Boston 1969-70 With Shuya Abe, constructs the video synthesizer 1971 Works at WNET's TV lab, New York 1976 Retrospective at Kolnischer Kunstverein, Cologne Since 1979 Chair at Staatliche Kunstakademie, Dusseldorf 1982 Retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York January 1st, 1984 Satellite broadcast of "Good Morning Mr. Orwell" from the Centre Pompidou, Paris, and a WNET-TV studio, New York 1987 Elected a member of the Akademie der Kunste, Berlin 1988 Erects a media tower, "The more the better", from 1003 monitors for the Olympic Games at Seoul 1990 "Video Arbor" is put up in Philadelphia as a sculpture for the public sector 1991-92 Double exhibition "Video Time - Video Space" at Kunsthalle Basel and Kunsthalle Zurich, subsequently shown in Dusseldorf and Vienna

Receives Goslar Kaiserringes Award 1993 Nam June Paik with Hans Haake represents Germany in XLV Venice Biennale d' Arte 1998 Receives Kyoto Award 2000 Receives National Arts Club Award Retrospective The Worlds of Nam June Paik, opens at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York then travels to Ho-Am Art Gallery and the Rodin Gallery, Seoul Korea Numerous grants and awards from, inter alia, the Guggenheim Museum, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the American Film Institute; Will Grohmann Award, Goslar Emperor's Ring, UNESCO's Picasso Medal Paik lives and works in New York, teaches at Staatliche Kunstakademie, Dusseldorf, and has a second home in Bad Kreuznach