SEOUL, Jan. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — A documentary about Korea-born video art pioneer Paik Nam-june (1932-2006) has been selected for the official competition of the Sundance Film Festival, one of the major U.S. film festivals. Korean American director Amanda Kim’s first feature film, “Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV,” was chosen for the [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — A retrospective exhibition on Korea-born video art pioneer Paik Nam-june (1932-2006) will open this week to showcase his essential artworks and shed light on his broad influence on contemporary Korean art. The special exhibition “Paik Nam June Effect” will run from Nov. 10 to Feb. 26 at the National [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — Korean American artist Paik Nam-june’s biggest video artwork, “The More The Better,” has reopened in a test run for the next six months after four years of hiatus, a state museum said Thursday. The six-tier conical tower consists of 1,003 cathode-ray tube (CRT) monitors emitting a cascade of light [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — The Korean Cultural Center in New York has opened an exhibition of video installation works by the visionary artist Paik Nam-june (1932-2006). Titled “Nam June Paik: The Maestro of Time,” the exhibition began on Thursday (U.S. time) and runs through Jan. 31 in celebration of the center’s 40th anniversary. [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — One of the famous late Korean-American video artist Paik Nam-june’s major works will be on display in Seoul later this week, the Seoul city government said Thursday. “The three-month exhibition of Paik Nam-june’s ‘Suite 212′ will start Saturday via a 29×7.7-meter big screen, called the Seoullo Media Canvas, at [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Measuring 18.5 meters in height and 11 m in diameter, a massive pagoda of TV monitors has been the symbol of South Korea’s National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA) in Gwacheon, south of Seoul, and the quintessence of Korean-American artist Paik Nam-june’s (1932-2006) pioneering video art career. [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — For the first time in 29 years, the Whitney Museum of American Art is holding an exhibition of Fin De Siecle II, the most representative piece by Paik Nam-june, the late South Korean pioneer of video arts. The piece is being showcased at an exhibition titled Programmed: Rules, Codes, [...]
The ‘Illuminating the world’ exhibition will stage ‘Lamp’, a media art piece produced by Paik in 1994, and the ‘Revolution Family’ series until January 11. The ‘<Neoanthropinae series>, Flying Man’ by artist Kim Jin-woo will be exhibited until November 20. The piece grafts the movement of machines and sounds together to show the imagination of [...]
Seoul, Mar. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — The National Assembly of the Republic of Korea is holding an exhibition of art pieces created by Paik Nam-June, the founder of video art who passed away in 2006, at the National Assembly main hall from March 2 to May 31. Paik Nam-June was an experimental pioneer of video art [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — As many of the hundreds of monitors in video artist Paik Nam-june’s ‘The More the Better’ are not functional, a repair program has been planned which will last until the upcoming National Liberation Day. On January 26, the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art stated, “We plan to finish [...]