Discussing the life and works of Nam June Paik
Nam June Paik was born in Seorin-dong, Jongno-gu, Seoul (then Seorin-jeong, Gyeongseong-bu, Gyeonggi-do during the Japanese colonial period).
He was the youngest of three sons born to his father Paik Nak-seung and his mother Cho Jong-hee. He attended Susong Elementary School and Gyeonggi First Higher Common School.
1949: transferred to the Royden School in Hong Kong.
1952: entered the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Tokyo, where he majored in art history and aesthetics and began studying electronic engineering and cybernetics.
1956: studied Western architecture, music history, and philosophy at the University of Munich and the University of Cologne.
1959: presented the performance Hommage à John Cage.
1963: held his first exhibition, Exposition of Music – Electronic Television, at Galerie Parnass in Wuppertal, Germany—an early form of what would later be called video art.
1964: moved to Japan and created Robot K-456.
1965: began working with Sony’s Portapak, the world’s first portable video camera, an event recorded in art history as the official beginning of video art.
1973: published writings proposing a hybrid of art and technology.
1984: broadcast Good Morning, Mr. Orwell live via satellite (on January 1).
1992: he presented the exhibition The More the Better at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, which attracted a record audience of 200,000 visitors.
2006: passed away.