SEOUL, Aug. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — The National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA) announced Tuesday that it has set up an exclusive streaming platform for video art in collaboration with four galleries in Asia. ‘Watch and Chill’ is a subscription-based online streaming platform for 22 video art pieces provided by the MMCA, Hong [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea is a pioneering Asian country in video art, being the home of Paik Nam-june, the de facto inventor of the genre. To chronicle the unique history of Korean video art, the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA) is this week holding a special exhibition that [...]
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, 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 [...]