Nam June Paik was referring to the way that the ... Equal parts unsettling and pathetic, Paik’s robot is made out of bits and pieces of metal, old clothing, a data recorder, spindly legs with ...

It was hilarious. The New York Times and the News -- the papers sent their music critics to review Nam June Paik and the robot and me, and they didn't quite know what to do with us. In fact ...

The new documentary Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV opens on a ... who built his first robot, K456 (1964), with spare mechanical parts as a way to “make technology ridiculous”; and ...

Presentation of "Good Morning Mr. Orwell" at the Kitchen Gallery, New York, on December 8, 1983. Photograph © 1983 by Lorenzo Bianda (Tegna, CH). Asia Society Museum ...

his happy little robots made out of console radios… it's all catnip on social media. The show is called "Nam June Paik: Art in Process, Part 1," and as the title indicates, it's the first ...

But sourcing video, electronics and computers to make fine art feels obvious, in part, because the pioneering artist Nam June Paik made it so. Widely referred to as the father of video art ...

Dogwoof has picked up Amanda Kim’s documentary on the contemporary artist Nam June Paik for world sales, excluding North America and South Korea. “Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV” is ...

Plenty of famous people have called Miami home, but from the late '90s to the early 2000s, the city was home to one of the most important and celebrated artists of the 20th Century: Nam June Paik.

“It wasn’t easy,” recalls Nam June Paik’s New York landlord, when the Korean-born video artist first arrived in America. “He had 16 televisions chained together. And he had two robots.