Nam June Paik

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

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

Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV

365 Day Project

Hi-Red Centre Shelter Plan

Flux-Concert

All Star Video

George: The Story of George Maciunas and Fluxus

He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life

All Movies (38)

• Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV2023 · as Self (archive footage)
• Tapes2020
• Kill Your TV: Jim Moir’s Weird World of Video Art2019
• George: The Story of George Maciunas and Fluxus2018 · as Self (archive footage)
• Re: Maciunas and Fluxus2011
• Joseph Beuys - Coyote III2008 · as Himself
• 365 Day Project2007 · as Self
• Nam June Paik: Lessons from the Video Master2006 · as Self (archive footage)
• Winter in Miami 20052006 · as Self
• Nam June Paik: The Tiger Lives2003 · as Self
• As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty2000 · as Self
• April is the Cruelest Month1999 · as Self
• Sexual Healing1998 · as Self
• "Topless Cellist" Charlotte Moorman1995
• The Electronic Super Highway: Nam June Paik in the Nineties1994 · as Self
• The Misfits - 30 Years of Fluxus1993 · as Self
• Back to Fucking Cambridge1987 · as Anton von Webern
• Bye Bye Kipling1986 · as Self
• He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life1986 · as Self (archive footage)
• All Star Video1985 · as Self
• Home Movies 1971-811985
• Trip to Korea1984
• Persistence of Vision1984 · as Self
• Flux-Concert1979 · as Self
• Nam June Paik: The Good Conscience of the Avant Garde1977 · as Self
• A Tribute to John Cage1976
• Video: The New Wave1975
• Nam June Paik: Edited for Television1975 · as Self
• ‘Rameau’s Nephew’ by Diderot (Thanx to Dennis Young) by Wilma Schoen1974 · as Tom
• 26'1.1499" For A String Player1973
• Seminar1969 · as Self
• Kunst und Ketchup1966
• P+A-I(k)1966
• Hi-Red Centre Shelter Plan1964
• Stockhausen's Originale: Doubletakes1964
• Nam June Paik1962 · as Self
• Thirty Second Spots: TV Commercials for Artists (1982-83)— · as Nam June Paik
• Processing the Signal— · as Himself