Nam June Paik: Exposition of Music. Electronic Television. Revisited

ISBN 10: 3865606199 / ISBN 13: 9783865606198

Published by Walther König, Köln, 2009

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Nam June Paik (1932 - 2006) was a South Korean artist who worked with a variety of media and is considered to be the founder of video art. He is also credited with the first use in 1974 of the term "electronic super highway" to describe the future of telecommunications. This catalogue was published in connection with 2009 exhibition "Nam June Paik: Music for All Senses" at the Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig in Vienna which included a revisit to Paik's first solo exhibition in 1963. The text is in Austrian and English.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Nam June Paik: Exposition of Music. Electronic Television. Revisited
• Publisher: Walther König, Köln
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3865606199
• ISBN 13: 9783865606198
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Good

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Synopsis

In 1963, Nam June Paik created a new genre of exhibition with his first solo show, The Exposition of Electronic Music-Electronic Television at Galerie Parnass in Wuppertal, West Germany. Fresh from his studies with John Cage and Karlheinz Stockhausen, and already a Fluxus veteran, Paik created a disorienting environment that foreshadowed much of what was to come in the 1960s: visitors, greeted at the entrance by a freshly slaughtered ox head, were not only confronted with the newness of the electronic image in Paik's TV monitors, but also found themselves integrated into a Dadaistic installation that included prepared pianos, mechanical sound objects, record players and audio tape installations. Exposition reconstructs this landmark show.