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Paik, Nam June «Post-Musik»
Paik, Nam June «Letter to Dr. Steinecke» Paik, Nam June «AFTERLUDE to the Exposition of EXPERIMENTAL TELEVISION» Paik, Nam June «Texts on TV – Projects for Electronic Television» Paik, Nam June «Media Planning for the Postindustrial Society – The 21st Century is now only 26 years away» Paik, Nam June «Electronic Video Recorder» Paik, Nam June «Global Groove and Video Common Market» Paik, Nam June «Do it yourself» Paik, Nam June «La Vie — Satelliten. Eine Begegnung — Ein Leben»
Relevant passages:
Dieter Daniels «Media → Art / Art → Media
Forerunners of media art in the first half of the twentieth century» Dieter Daniels «Television-Art or anti-art?
Conflict and cooperation between the avant-garde and the mass media in the 1960s and 1970s» | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Golo Föllmer «Audio Art» Rudolf Frieling «Reality/Mediality
Hybrid Processes Between Art and Life» Heike Helfert «Technological Constructions of Space-Time
Aspects of Perception» | 2 Inke Arns «Social Technologies
Deconstruction, subversion, and the utopia of democratic communication» | 2 Inke Arns «Interaction, Participation, Networking: Art and Telecommunication» | 2 Rudolf Frieling «Form Follows Format
Tensions, Museums, Media Technology, and Media Art» | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Rudolf Frieling Dieter Daniels «Milestones of Media-Art» | 2 Claudia Giannetti «Aesthetic Paradigms of Media Art» Dieter Daniels «Sound & Vision in Avantgarde & Mainstream » Golo Föllmer Julia Gerlach «Audiovisions. Music as an Intermedia Art Form.» | 2 | 3 Tilman Baumgärtel «On a Number of Aspects of Artistic Computer Games» Ursula Frohne «»That's the Only Now I Get« Immersion and Participation in Video Installations by Dan Graham, Steve McQueen, Douglas Gordon, Doug Aitken, Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Sam Taylor-Wood» Ivone Margulies «Toward a Corporeal Cinema: Theatricality in the \'70s» Rudolf Frieling «The Archive, the Media, the Map and the Text» | 2
Works by Nam June Paik:
Action with a violin on a string (staged during «Exposition of Music – Electronic Television») Baroque Laser Buddha German Pavilion: Marco Polo documenta-performance Electronic Art II Etude for Piano Exposition of Music – Electronic Television Global Groove Good Morning, Mr. Orwell Hommage à John Cage: Music for Tape Recorder and Piano I-Ching/Et-Ching Kuba-TV Magnet TV Mayor Lindsay McLuhan Caged (in Electronic Art II) One for Violin Solo Participation TV performance in the Ramsbott home Random Access Music: Exposition of Music – Electronic Television Robot K-456 Schallplatten-Schaschlik: Exposition of Music – Electronic Television Simple As Boring As Possible Traitor, you left fluxus (Postcard to Nam June Paik) Triangle tv with microphone TV Set for your Mind TV Story Board TV-Buddha TV-Garden Primitive Music Video-Tape Monthly Magazine Wrap around the World Yellow Peril ! Zen for Film Zen for Head
Check as well:
Beuys, Joseph; Paik, Nam June Paik, Nam June; Moorman, Charlotte Paik, Nam June; Vostell, Wolf Paik, Nam June; Yalkut, Jud Paik, Nam June; Piene, Otto Exposition of Music – Electronic Television
Nam June Paik
b 1932 in Seoul. 1953–56 studies music, history, art history and philosophy at the University of Tokyo, where he writes a dissertation on Arnold Schönberg. Continues studies in Munich and Freiburg. In 1958 meets John Cage in Darmstadt and works with Karlheinz Stockhausen at the electronic music studio of Westdeutscher Rundfunk in Cologne. Becomes a member of the Fluxus movement. 1963 shows the first manipulated TV sets, in Wuppertal. 1964 moves to New York and becomes the first artist to make videotapes. During the 1970s and 1980s his work is widely exhibited all over the world. 1978 appointed professor at the Kunstakademie, Düsseldorf. 1987 elected to membership of the Akademie der Künste, Berlin. Lives in New York and Florida.
