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'''[[Nam June Paik]]''' ([[July 20]], [[1932]] - [[January 29]], [[2006]]) was an American South-Korean born artist. He worked on several mediums of art but was often being credited for discovering and/or inventing the medium known as [[video art]]. |
'''[[Nam June Paik]]''' ([[July 20]], [[1932]] - [[January 29]], [[2006]]) was an American South-Korean born artist. He worked on several mediums of art but was often being credited for discovering and/or inventing the medium known as [[video art]]. |
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Nam June Paik (July 20, 1932 - January 29, 2006) was an American South-Korean born artist. He worked on several mediums of art but was often being credited for discovering and/or inventing the medium known as video art.
In 1984, the novel he wrote in 1948, George Orwell sees the television of the future as a control instrument in the hands of Big Brother in a totalitarian state. Right at the start of the much-anticipated Orwellian year, Paik was keen to demonstrate satellite TV's ability to serve positive ends, such as the intercontinental exchange of culture combining both mainstream TV and avant-garde elements.
A live broadcast shared between WNET TV in New York and the Centre Pompidou in Paris and hooking up with broadcasters in Germany and South Korea reached a worldwide audience of over 25 million viewers. The broadcast carried forward Paik's videotape ‘Global Grove' of 1973 – an early, pioneering concept aimed at international understanding through the vehicle of TV – by expanding the concept with the possibilities of satellite transmission in real time. Although abundant technical hitches sometimes rendered the results unpredictable, Paik deemed that this merely served to increase the ‘live' mood.
"Good Morning Mr.Orwell" was Paik's first international satellite "installation." Paik's transcultural satellite extravaganzas linked different countries, spaces, and times in often chaotic but entertaining collages of art and pop culture, the avant-garde, and television. "Good Morning Mr.Orwell," which Paik saw as a rebuttal to Orwell's dystopian vision of 1984, featured vibrant performances by Laurie Anderson, Merce Cunningham, Peter Gabriel and Allen Ginsberg, among many others.
Paik coordinated the event and designed the TV graphics that connected the various live and pre-recorded segments. This project can be seen as a development of Paik's thinking on the potential of satellite communication, as proposed in A Conversation, and realized with his typical pastiche of art, entertainment, and crosscultural juxtapositions.
Conceived and coordinated by Nam June Paik. Executive Producer: Carol Brandenburg. Assisted by Debbie Liebling, Anne Garefino, Mark Malamud, and others. Partial Post-Production: Nam June Paik, Paul Garrin. Post-Production: Broadway Video, Post Perfect. WNET, New York; FR3, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; WDR Westdeutsche Fernsehen.