Charles Dibdin
British musician, songwriter, dramatist, novelist and actor
Nam June Paikwas a Korean artist. He worked with a variety of media and is considered to be the founder of video art.
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About the Nam June Paik
Nam June Paikwas a Korean artist. He worked with a variety of media and is considered to be the founder of video art. He is credited with the first useof the term “electronic super highway” to describe the future of telecommunications.
Born in Seoul to a wealthy business family, Paik trained as a classical musician, spending time in Japan and West Germany, where he joined the Fluxus collective and developed a friendship with experimental composer John Cage. He moved to New York City in 1964 and began working with cellist Charlotte Moorman to create performance art. Soon after, he began to incorporate televisions and video tape recorders into his work, acquiring growing fame. A stroke in 1996 left him partially paralyzed for the last decade of his life.
3 Quotes by Nam June Paik
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The future is now.
Nam June PaikAmerican video art pioneer (1932-2006)
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Skin has become inadequate in interfacing with reality. Technology has become the body’s new membrane of existence.
Nam June PaikAmerican video art pioneer (1932-2006)
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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 PaikAmerican video art pioneer (1932-2006)