Nam June Paik

DirectingBorn 1932-07-20Died 2006-01-29 (73)Gyeongseong, South Korea [now Seoul]

Nam June Paik was the first video artist who experimented with electronic media and made a profound impact on the art of video and television. He coined the phrase "Information Superhighway" in 1974, and has been called the "father of video art."

Nam June Paik

Known For

365 Day Project

He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life

‘Rameau’s Nephew’ by Diderot (Thanx to Dennis Young) by Wilma Schoen

As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty

George: The Story of George Maciunas and Fluxus

Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV

All Star Video

A Tribute to John Cage

"Topless Cellist" Charlotte Moorman

Persistence of Vision

Filmography

Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV

Tapes

Kill Your TV: Jim Moir’s Weird World of Video Art

George: The Story of George Maciunas and Fluxus

Re: Maciunas and Fluxus

Fluxfilm Anthology 1962-1970

Joseph Beuys - Coyote III

365 Day Project

As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty

Analogue Assemblage

"Topless Cellist" Charlotte Moorman

The Electronic Super Highway: Nam June Paik in the Nineties

Sistine Chapel

Moon is the Oldest TV

Video Commune (Beatles from Beginning to End)

Beuys

Living with the Living Theatre

One Candle, One Projection

Wrap around the World

Back to Fucking Cambridge

Adelic Penguins

He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life

Butterfly

All Star Video

Home Movies 1971-81

Persistence of Vision

Good Morning, Mr. Orwell

Allan ‘n Allen’s Complaint

Lake Placid '80

Flux-Concert

Media Shuttle: New York - Moscow

Merce by Merce by Paik

Guadalcanal Requiem

A Tribute to John Cage

Video: The New Wave

Nam June Paik: Edited for Television

Suite 212

‘Rameau’s Nephew’ by Diderot (Thanx to Dennis Young) by Wilma Schoen

TV Buddha

TV Garden

26'1.1499" For A String Player

Global Groove

Cinema Metaphysique No. 1-5

TV Cello Premiere

Electronic Opera no. 1

Beatles Electroniques

9/23/69: Experiment with David Atwood

The Medium Is the Medium

Early Color TV Manipulations

Missa of Zen

Digital Experiment at Bell Labs

Electronic Moon No. 2

Waiting for Commercials

P+A-I(k)

Magnet TV

Button Happening

Zen for Film

Hi-Red Centre Shelter Plan

Nam June Paik