The new documentary Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV opens on a video screen displaying a geometric computer animation. Edged with primary colors, the graphic, shaped like a butterfly, moves in ...

The artwork and ideas of Nam June Paik were a major influence on late 20th-century art and continue to inspire a new generation of artists. “Nam June Paik: Global Visionary” offers an unprecedented ...

Of the many predictions Nam June Paik made about humanity’s relationship to media and technology, the artist’s 1968 video sculpture TV Chair is perhaps the most spot-on antecedent—and antidote—to life ...

Co-organized with Gagosian and Leon Gallery International, the show marks the first time Paik’s work has been shown in the country. U.S. Ambassador to the Philippines Sung Kim leads a performance of ...

Dogwoof has picked up Amanda Kim’s documentary on the contemporary artist Nam June Paik for world sales, excluding North America and South Korea. “Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV” is set to world ...

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A new documentary follows the ceaseless innovations of a man who made art out of television sets and found inspiration in disruption. By Nicolas Rapold When you purchase a ticket for an independently ...

Nam June Paik, the avant-garde artist credited with inventing video art in the 1960s by combining multiple TV screens with sculpture, music and live performers, has died. He was 74. The Korean-born ...

IN THE EARLY 1970s Nam June Paik won a Rockefeller Foundation fellowship with a proposal “to destroy national television”. The award gave him the resources to make “Global Groove” (1973), a joyous ...

In 1982, as part of a Nam June Paik performance in New York, a large metal robot/sculpture attempted to cross Madison Avenue. A hilarious documentary film made at the time shows Robot K-456 eventually ...