Electronic Artist Nam June Paik Celebrated in SFMOMA Retrospective

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🗓️ 23 July 2021

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

In the first retrospective of his work on the West Coast, SFMOMA’s current exhibition on electronic art pioneer Nam June Paik features more than 200 works from the artist whose five-decade career “changed the way we look at screens.” One of most acclaimed of the first generation of video artists, Paik’s early work in the 1960s changed perceptions of television, video and the boundary between art and spectator through its integration of camera, video, music and performance. We’ll talk about Paik’s work and legacy, and we’ll hear from contemporary video artists who will discuss Paik’s impact on their own art. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:16.1	Nam June Pake was a groundbreaking video artist whose explorations of the new medium were
1:21.0	marked by a gnomic humor and a focus on the beauty that could be extracted from the machines
1:25.5	that made television.
1:27.0	At a time when electronics were largely the province of Cold War militaries,
1:31.3	Pake said that someday artists will work with capacitors, resistors, and semiconductors
1:36.0	as they work today with brushes, violins, and junk.
1:40.0	SF. MoMA has a new retrospective of his work and we'll discuss his legacy.
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