Nam Paik Essay

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Nam June Paik Nam June Paik then began participating in the Neo-Dada art movement, known as Fluxus, which was inspired by the composer John Cage and his use of everyday sounds and noises in his music. He made his big debut at an exhibition known as Exposition of Music-Electronic Television, which he scattered televisions everywhere and used magnets to alter or distort their images. In a 1960 piano performance in Cologne, he played Chopin, threw himself on the piano and rushed into the audience, attacking Cage and pianist David Tudor by cutting their clothes with scissors and dumping shampoo on their heads. In 1964, Paik moved to New York, and began working with Charlotte Moorman, to combine his video, music, and performance. In the work TV Cello, they stacked televisions on top of one another, so that they formed the shape of an actual cello. When Moorman drew her bow across the "cello," images of her and other cellists playing appeared on the screens. When Sony introduced the Portapak, Paik could both move and record things, for it was the first portable video and audio recorder. From there, Paik became an international celebrity, known for his creative and entertaining works. In 1971, he made a cello out of three television sets stacked up on top of each other and some cello strings. He got a famous cellist to play the "cello" as well. In 1974 Nam June Paik used the term "super highway" for telecommunications, which gave rise to the opinion that he may have been the author of the phrase "Information Superhighway". In his 1974 proposal "Media Planning for the Postindustrial Society – The 21st Century is now only 26 years away" to the Rockefeller Foundation he used a slightly different phrase, "electronic super highway". In another work, Something Pacific (1986), a statue of a sitting Buddha faces its image on a closed circuit television. Another piece, Positive

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