Nam June Paik
Biography
Nam June Paik was the first video artist who experimented with electronic media and made a profound impact on the art of video and television. He coined the phrase "Information Superhighway" in 1974, and has been called the "father of video art."
Gallery
Known For
Acting History
2023
Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV as Self (archive footage)
2020Tapes
2019Kill Your TV: Jim Moir’s Weird World of Video Art
2018George: The Story of George Maciunas and Fluxus as Self (archive footage)
2011Re: Maciunas and Fluxus
2008Joseph Beuys - Coyote III as Himself
2007365 Day Project
2006Nam June Paik: Lessons from the Video Master as Self (archive footage)
2003Nam June Paik: The Tiger Lives as Self
2000As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty as Self
1995"Topless Cellist" Charlotte Moorman
1994The Electronic Super Highway: Nam June Paik in the Nineties as Self
1987Back to Fucking Cambridge as Anton von Webern
1986He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life as Self (archive footage)
1986Bye Bye Kipling as Self
1985All Star Video as Self
1985Home Movies 1971-81
1984Trip to Korea
1984Persistence of Vision as Self
1979Flux-Concert as Self
1977Nam June Paik: The Good Conscience of the Avant Garde as Self
1976A Tribute to John Cage
1975Video: The New Wave
1975Nam June Paik: Edited for Television as Self
1974‘Rameau’s Nephew’ by Diderot (Thanx to Dennis Young) by Wilma Schoen as Tom
197326'1.1499" For A String Player
1969Seminar as Self
1966Kunst und Ketchup
1966P+A-I(k)
1964Hi-Red Centre Shelter Plan
1964Stockhausen's Originale: Doubletakes
1962Nam June Paik as Self
—Thirty Second Spots: TV Commercials for Artists (1982-83) as Nam June Paik
—The Misfits - 30 Years of Fluxus as Self
—Processing the Signal as Himself