Nam June Paik
20 July 1932 – 29 January 2006
Nam June Paik was a Korean-American artist who worked with television sets, video and satellite broadcasting and is widely described as a founder of video art. Trained in music and associated with the Fluxus movement, he presented his first solo exhibition of manipulated televisions in Wuppertal in 1963 and later worked in New York. His works include the satellite broadcast Good Morning, Mr. Orwell and large video installations.
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Life events
He was born into a family of textile manufacturers in Seoul.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgThe family left Seoul for Hong Kong and then Japan.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHe completed a thesis on the composer Arnold Schoenberg.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHe studied music history and composition in Munich, Freiburg and Cologne.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgThe encounter with Cage turned his work towards experimental performance and the Fluxus circle.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHe showed prepared pianos and thirteen altered television sets at Galerie Parnass in Wuppertal.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHe settled in New York, where he began a long collaboration with the cellist Charlotte Moorman.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgThe term appeared in a report he prepared on media and communications networks.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgThe live satellite programme linked artists in New York and Paris and was transmitted internationally on New Year's Day.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHe died at his winter home in Miami at the age of 73.
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