Artist - Nam June Paik

Manfred Montewe, Portrait Nam June Paik sitting on the staires, 1963

Nam June Paik (July 20, 1932 – January 29, 2006) was a Korean American artist. He worked with a variety of media and is considered to be the first video artist. Paik is credited with an early usage (1974) of the term "super highway" in application to telecommunications.

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Nam June Paik, TV Bed, 1972

"I am not saying that we are not creating high art, but that we are creating a new high art with new materials" (Nam June Paik)

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 Nam June Paik, Olympe de Gauge, 1989

"The context is the content; the content is the context" (Nam June Paik)

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Nam June Paik, Helper, 1989

"The future is now." (Nam June Paik)

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 Nam June Paik, Dogmatic, 1996

"Skin has become inadequate in interfacing with reality. Technology has become the body's new membrane of existence." (Nam June Paik)

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Nam June Paik, Zen for TV, 1963

"Our life is half natural and half technological. Half-and-half is good. You cannot deny that high-tech is progress. We need it for jobs. Yet if you make only high-tech, you make war. So we must have a strong human element to keep modesty and natural life." (Nam June Paik) 

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Nam June Paik, Experiment with David Atwood, 1969. 

 New installation of recent media art acquisitions opens at the American Art Museum.