Nam June Paik
Nam June Paik the father of vidieo based art and installation, he created images through mutiple screens of images or a singular image divided between mutiple screens. He was born in Seoul Korea an trained as clasical pianist. As the Koreans war erupted he and his fammly fled to Hong Kong and then to Japan. He later study at the University of Toyko and Munich Universtiy. He has a very braod backround in music and art history until he started partisipating in the Neo- Dada art movment in the early 60’s, he was inspired by the ccomposer John Cage by his noises and sounds that were created electronicly. That was the piont that Nam June Paik started using vidio and tv’s as a bases for his work stcking and aranging tv. Adding other elements like cellos and neon lighting. The imagary was sometime interactive to a particapant. Charlotte Moorman a claisical cellist did a colaberation with him, Paik had stacked tv in the shape of a cello and on the tv’s as she drew the bow across the tv set the image of the bow and strings acted the same thus producing sound and a visual image that coencided with phisical movment.
Nam June Paik the father of vidieo based art and installation, he created images through mutiple screens of images or a singular image divided between mutiple screens. He was born in Seoul Korea an trained as clasical pianist. As the Koreans war erupted he and his fammly fled to Hong Kong and then to Japan. He later study at the University of Toyko and Munich Universtiy. He has a very braod backround in music and art history until he started partisipating in the Neo- Dada art movment in the early 60’s, he was inspired by the ccomposer John Cage by his noises and sounds that were created electronicly. That was the piont that Nam June Paik started using vidio and tv’s as a bases for his work stcking and aranging tv. Adding other elements like cellos and neon lighting. The imagary was sometime interactive to a particapant. Charlotte Moorman a claisical cellist did a colaberation with him, Paik had stacked tv in the shape of a cello and on the tv’s as she drew the bow across the tv set the image of the bow and strings acted the same thus producing sound and a visual image that coencided with phisical movment.
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Nam June Paik. glad to see it here.. really the pioneer. If we have to point out- "The father" in multi(?)- inter(?)- mixed(?)media, I agree, he would be the one.He was the first who publicly vandalised pianos, in order to get the ultimate sound out of them. The first who inserted the TV set into the art, and sex in to the music...
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