Titles by Nam June Paik:
Merce by Merce by Paik 
Work by Nam June Paik also appears on:
Anthology: Surveying the First Decade
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Born
in Korea in 1932, Nam June Paik studied music and art history at the
University of Tokyo in Japan, writing a thesis on Arnold Shoenberg that
earned him a degree in aesthetics. Paik's studies continued in Germany
at the universities of Munich and Cologne and at the Conservatory of
Music in Freiburg. During this time (1958-63), Paik met avant-garde
composer John Cage and worked with Karlheinz Stockhausen at the WDR
Studio for Electronic Music in Cologne. After meeting Fluxus founder
George Maciunas in 1961, he participated in numerous European Fluxus
performances, actions, and events. Paik's first one-man exhibition was
the 1963 Exposition of Electronic Music-Electronic Television at the
Galerie Parnass Wuppertal in West Germany, which featured his series of
"altered" TV sets. Paik came to New York in 1964 where he participated
in the Fluxus scene and began developing performances in collaboration
with cellist Charlotte Moorman. In 1969, Paik was included in the
landmark TV as a Creative Medium show at the Howard Wise Gallery. In
this same year, Paik and electronics engineer Shuya Abe designed and
built the first Paik/Abe Synthesizer at WGBH in Boston. Many of Paik's
tapes, including Global Groove (1973) and A Tribute to John Cage (1973)
were produced through the artist-in-residence program at WNET's TV Lab.
In addition to his pioneering work as an artist, performer, and
inventor, one of Paik's major contributions to the field was his early
effort as an advocate for the medium, consulting with the Rockefeller
Foundation and the New York State Council on the Arts to establish
funding systems which would sustain the video movement throughout the
decade. |
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