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Nam June Paik

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Born: July 20, 1932
Died: January 29, 2006
From: Gyeongseong, South Korea [now Seoul]

Also known as

백남준 · Paik Nam-june

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."

Known for

Zen for Film

Good Morning, Mr. Orwell

Global Groove

"Topless Cellist" Charlotte Moorman

Beatles Electroniques

Electronic Moon No. 2

All Star Video

Videotape Study No. 3

Filmography

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2023

Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV

Acting (Self (archive footage))

2020

2019

Kill Your TV: Jim Moir’s Weird World of Video Art

2018

George: The Story of George Maciunas and Fluxus

Acting (Self (archive footage))

2011

Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film

Acting (Himself (archive footage))

Re: Maciunas and Fluxus

2010

Fluxfilm Anthology 1962-1970

Directing (Director)

2008

Joseph Beuys - Coyote III

Acting (Himself)

2007

365 Day Project

Acting (Self)

2006

Nam June Paik's Piano Piece

Nam June Paik: Lessons from the Video Master

Acting (Self (archive footage))

Winter in Miami 2005

Acting (Self)

2003

Nam June Paik: The Tiger Lives

Acting (Self)

2000

As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty

Acting (Self)

Analogue Assemblage

Directing (Director)

1999

April is the Cruelest Month

Acting (Self)

Laboratorium Anthology

1998

Sexual Healing

Acting (Self)

1995

"Topless Cellist" Charlotte Moorman

Acting Directing (Director)

1994

The Electronic Super Highway: Nam June Paik in the Nineties

Acting (Self)

1993

Sistine Chapel

Directing (Director) Creating (Creator) Art (Art Direction) Editing (Editor)

The Misfits - 30 Years of Fluxus

Acting (Self)

1992

Deoksu Palace

Directing (Director)

Video Commune (Beatles from Beginning to End)

Directing (Director)

1990

Directing (Director)

1989

Living with the Living Theatre

Directing (Director)

1988

One Candle, One Projection

Directing (Director)

Wrap around the World

Directing (Director)

1987

Back to Fucking Cambridge

Acting (Anton von Webern)

1986

Bye Bye Kipling

Acting (Self) Directing (Director)

Adelic Penguins

Art (Art Direction)

He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life

Acting (Self (archive footage))