Nam June Paik New Video

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Nam June Paik Video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkjxG_k0VDo

Nam June Paik

Nam June Paik

Mr. Hakuta,

My name is Phillip Baumer. I am a 2^nd MFA grad student in sculpture within the School of Art & Design at Wichita State University in Wichita, Kansas. I am contacting you because I am in a class that will be visiting the Istanbul Biennial in early October. Prior to leaving for this trip, our class is researching artists exhibiting at the biennale. As a class we feel it is important to not just view the artists work but to understand how their art is important to the biennial. I am hoping that you could be a voice for Mr. Paik and answer to the best of your ability five questions we have prepared.

1.) In your opinion, how does the setting for the Istanbul Biennial affect how Nam June Paik’s work will be viewed or perceived?

2.) How does Nam June Paik’s art fit into the thematic concerns or curatorial statement of the Istanbul Biennial?

3.) Given the history of the biennial as an international venue; how do you think that Nam June Paik would consider the global significance of its future? I would also appreciate your answer to the same question.

4.) While Nam June Paik’s art is internationally prolific, how important is the Istanbul Biennial to his artistic legacy?

5.) Nam June Paik is considered the first video artist; in your opinion—how has video art changed since he first introduced it as an art medium?

I am presenting Mr. Paik’s work next Monday to our class and any help that you could give in answering these questions would be greatly appreciated.

Sincerely,

Phillip Baumer

Graduate Student

Wichita State University

Nam June Paik

Nam June Paik manipulates colour and black and white televisions to portray his theme. His objective through using the television is to make the TV set itself, not just by using what is shown on the screen but by using the screen and the box as a sculpture. In one exhibition, the main attraction was the thirteen part video sculpture My Faust(1989-1991). He used thirteen stations to correspond to the thirteen New York cable TV channels. The represented stations represented subjects of the world, such as education and agriculture. Each station grouped the screens ornamented neo-Gothic construction, which was inspired by the thirteen Stations of the Cross. All thirteen stations have its own subject but at the same time shows a part of his biography. He uses objects to show parts of his personality, such as a rumpled shirt, which symbolizes how little he is concerned with his personal appearance. Not only does he include his own personality into his theme but he also includes how he sees global subject matter. He uses art to show people how the world changes and transforms, and how to understand the changes.

In Eagle Eye, the spirit of Zen and the changing dynamics of American society inspired Paik. He has integrated new technology into an expressive style of art. This assemblage is made up of nine computers and keyboards, forming the wings and feathers. An eye chart, projector and obsolete technologies are used for the body. The blue neon light shows the atmospheric space of the eagle. The video is a collage of images flashing onto the screen. The images include the earth, a solar eclipse, and American missiles.

TV Garden is scene or assemblage that represents nature and technology. It is the first large art piece, which uses state-of-the-art equipment. Monitors are placed lying on their backs with tropical plants surrounding the monitors. On every screen a scene from a tape called " Global Groove" is played. Global Groove is a collage of different kinds of material. The voice-over in the introduction by Russel Connor explains the message. It states "This is a view of a new world, in which it will be possible to switch on any television program on the planet, and in which TV-program guides will be thicker than the Manhattan telephone book." The message of TV Garden is about the future of worldwide communication and how it will be used by all nations.

The collection of eighteen televisions is called "TV Clock". Paik used the eighteen television sets to show the hours of the day. Each television has hands that show the division of the clock face into twelve daytime hours and twelve nighttime hours. Paik's message is the fact of measuring time with a static measurement tool. The ability to measure time is a great accomplishment because time is a natural phenomenon. By using the televisions to show time, it shows the worlds changing ways of measuring this phenomenon.

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Nam June Paik was born on July 20, 193s, in Seoul Korea. Paik studied music history, art history, and philosophy at the University of Tokyo, where he graduated with a dissertation on Arnold Schoenberg. He then went to Germany in 1956 to continue the study of music history at the University of Munich. In Germany he met Karlheinz Stockhausen and John Cage who inspired Paik into electronic art. Both composers, Stockhausen and Cage influenced Paik through their ideas of composition and performance. Paik worked with Stockhausen in a studio for Electronic Music. He then got involved with the post neo-Dada art movement, fluxus. Fluxus was founded by George Maciunas.George invited Paik to join his group of artists and he accepted. Then he returned to Japan to conduct experiments with electromagnets and colour television, alongside electronic engineer Shuya Abe. The rise of new technology led him to use the video image. Today he is known as the father of video art and influences the younger generation of artists

Nam June Paik Video

Nam June Paik: Venus / Galerie Hans Mayer / Art Cologne 2009

http://a23.video2.blip.tv/2470001130178/Henrichy0205blip-NamJunePaikVenus218.mp4?bri=9.5&brs=2196

At Art Cologne 2009 Hans Mayer Gallery showed a piece by Nam June Paik, a painted aluminium infrastructure with a multi painted satellite dish, 24 color TV sets and laser disc player. In this video, Hans Mayer gives us a short introduction to the work.

Nam June Paik (1932-2006) worked with a variety of media and is considered to be the first video artist. He was trained as a classical pianist. Nam June Paik and his family had to flee from their home in Korea in 1950. They fled to Hong Kong, and later moved to Japan and then to Germany. While studying in Germany, Nam June Paik met the composers Karlheinz Stockhausen and John Cage and the artists Joseph Beuys and Wolf Vostell. Wolf Vostell inspired him to work in the field of electronic art.

The Hans Mayer Gallery was established in 1965 in Esslingen, Germany. Because of exhibitions on Op Art, Contemporary Contstructivism, and Kinetic Art, the gallery became very well known in the 1960s. In 1967 he co-founded the world’s first art fair in Cologne, the Kunstmarkt Köln, now Art Cologne. Since 1971 Hans Mayer is based in Düsseldorf. In 2008, Hans Mayer received the European Gallery Award of the Federation of European Art Galleries Association. In the 1970s, 80s, and 90s the gallery programme expanded continuously. In 1969 Hans Mayer was the first to show Andy Warhol in Düsseldorf. In 1989 Nam June Paik joined the gallery. The gallery then added American artists such as Frank Stella, Ellsworth Kelly, Sol LeWitt, Robert Rauschenberg, Roy Lichtenstein, and Tom Wesselmann and representatives of a younger generation, including Keith Haring, Michael Basquiat, Kenny Scharf, Robert Longo, Bill Beckley and Tony Oursler to its programme. European painting is represented by C.O. Paeffgen, Gia Edzgveradze, and Markus Oehlen. Apart from gallery exhibitions, Hans Mayer deals in European and American art after 1945. The gallery is also specialized in large outdoor sculptures.

Nam June Paik

The İstanbul Biennial will be hosting the work “Life” by Nam June Paik, who is celebrated as the world’s first video-artist. Born in South Korea in 1932, this great master left behind countless works produced by a multitude of methods before his death in the USA, in 2006. In this piece, Nam June Paik displays his subjective manipulations of the covers of the famous “Life” magazine. The project will be displayed at Antrepo No. 3 throughout the Biennial.

Nam June Paik

My artist is dead. He died in 2006 at the age of 74, so this will be interesting.