Nam June Paik

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Nam June Paik - Nam June Paik is considered the founder of video art. His first installation were televisions with distorted and altered images. Here he can be seen working and listening. This picture was found on FACT.

Korean/American artist, considered to be the first video artist.

Paik made his big debut at an exhibition known as "Exhibition of Music-Electronic Television", in which he scattered televisions everywhere and used magnets to alter and distort their images.

Combining the expressive capacity and conceptual power of performance with the new technological possibilities associated with the moving image, he influenced the redefinition of broadcast television and transformation of video into an artist's medium. His work had a profound and sustained impact on the media culture of the late twentieth century.

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