Nam June Paik
Nam June Paik was a South 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 use (1974) of the term "electronic super highway" to describe the future of telecommunications.
Career Journey
Background
- Born in
- Seoul
- Educated at
- Kyunggi High School
- Awards
- 🏆 Maya Deren Award🏆 Order of Cultural Merit, 1st class🏆 Fukuoka Asian Culture Prize🏆 Goslarer Kaiserring🏆 Wilhelm Lehmbruck Award
Trending & Selected Quotes
Trending topics shown first"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…"
"By using TV as a bra... the most intimate belonging of a human being, we will demonstrate the human use of technology, and also stimulate viewers... to look for the new, imaginative and humanistic way…"
"Art is just fraud. You just have to do something nobody else has done before."
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Timeline
1932
Born
Birth2006
Died
Death
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