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Nam June Paik

b. 1932 — d. 2006 (aged 74)

Director Writer

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

Shutter Island

Horns

Early Color TV Manipulations

TV Cello Premiere

Filmography

Charlotte Resounding

The Electronic Super Highway: Nam June Paik in the Nineties

Video Commune (Beatles Beginning to End)

1992 Writer Cinematographer

Cage/Cunningham

Cage/Cunningham

A Hole in the Hat

1991 Actor Composer

Play It Again, Nam! A Portrait of Nam June Paik

Experiment Video

Back to Fucking Cambridge

Back to Fucking Cambridge

Anton Von Webern

Bye Bye Kipling

1986 Self Director

1986 Director Writer

Good Morning Mr. Orwell

Good Morning Mr. Orwell

1984 Director Writer

L'arche de Nam June Paik

Notes d'un magnétoscopeur

Merce by Merce by Paik

Merce by Merce by Paik

1978 Director Writer

The Fluxus Marriage: George Maciunas Marries Billie Hutching

Documenta 6 Satellite Telecast

A Tribute to John Cage

A Tribute to John Cage

1975 Self Director Writer Cinematographer

Douglas Davis: Present Tense

1975 Cinematographer

Edited for Television

Edited for Television

1975 Self Director

Waiting for Commercials

Electronic Yoga

TV Cello Premiere

1971 Director Writer

Fluxfilm Anthology 1962-1970

1971 Director Writer

Beatles Electroniques

Beatles Electroniques

1969 Director Writer

Early Color TV Manipulations

1968 Director Writer

Video Tape Study No. 3

1967 Director Writer

Public Broadcast Laboratory

Opera Sextronique

Study II: Dieter Roth

1966 Director Writer

Study III: George W. Ball

1966 Director Writer

Electronic Fables

Study I: Mayor Lindsay

1965 Director Writer

Zen for Film

Stockhausen's Originale: Doubletakes

Fluxus in Wiesbaden

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