Nam June Paik

In the great mystery about the Alcatraz escapees is one of the most creative jailbreaks of all time. The question is did they make it alive or did they die in the process? Based on the evidence I believe that they lived and that they escaped. I think that there plan worked. The first pieces of evidence comes from a video called “ did frank moore survive?” it says that there was a raft and footprints leading away from it on Angel Island. Angel island was there original destination. We know this…

20th century Korean American artist, Nam June Paik, is considered the ‘Father of Video Art’ , who viewed video a malleable art form as he altered the electronic image to produce avant-garde connections between art and technology. Paik was influential in defining this new form of expression, particularly notable in his work Electronic Superhighway; which draws on Jean Baudrillard’s 1983…

changed art even more, allowing digital creating and editing to be completed on a screen. With the accessibility of computers, cameras, TVs and movie players, anybody could now watch or create their own art, advancing art to a whole new level. Nam June Paik was a Korean artist who created the video art TV Buddha. In this setup,…

Artist, Nam June Paik began using magnetic tape in Portapacks, SONY’s portable, analogue video recording unit, as well as experimenting with and exhibiting cathode ray tube televisions as a sculptural object, in 1960s Germany. By 1968, the Museum of Modern Art had already begun acquiring and exhibiting Paik’s video work. Yet the bonafide rise of video as a museum object, and the scholarship that would follow, is associated with the succeeding decade. Moving image, derived from magnetic tape, had…

As a term, expanded cinema generally refers to cinematic exhibition or spectacle in which the concept of established filmic practice and structure is broadened by incorporating immersive and dynamic elements as opposed to single-screen viewing experience. ‘Expanded’ components may be evident in the materiality of the spectacle, such as in the employment of numerous surfaces for a screening, juxtaposition of various interdisciplinary mediums not restricted to cinema, immersion of the viewer and…

movement until the 1970’s mainly with architecture, but when it comes to paintings and other such art the term did not come to fruition until the mid 1980s. Some of the important artists of this movement were Jasper Johns, Francis Bacon, and Nam June Paik. Both of these movements are important to art and were a necessary form of art. They were different from each other in many ways and they had different concerns from one another. Although both movements were…

The aim of this research paper is to focus on the history, philosophy and sonic outcomes of Instrument Destruction, particularly in relation to performance art. whilst exploring ethics and danger involved in destroying instruments. This research will be undertaken with Annea Lockwood’s Piano Transplants’ series firmly in mind, and reference will be made to both scores and performances of these works. This paper also represents a unique opportunity to raise awareness on important works in…

This essay will introduce the themes of feminist approaches within performance art, in relation to the female body. Focusing in on the feminist approaches such as: violence against the female body that is used in cinema and film. Discussing the way of displaying the violence and how that challenges the female body, in order to create a memorable performance or cinematic film. These specific themes will link to the artist Ana Mendieta, through examining her works ‘Rape Scene’ and ‘Death of a…