Remembering Nam June Paik on his birthday 🎂
A portrait by his Fluxus colleague George Maciunas, at the Exposition of Music – Electronic Television, Galerie Parnass, Wuppertal, 1963
@MuseumModernArt
Nam June Paik coined the phrase "Electronic Super Highway," predicting in a 1974 report that it "will become our springboard for new and surprising human endeavors."
📷 Elliott Erwitt, 1982
Nam June Paik
Internet Dream, 1994
@Tate
"He really led the development of a new art form, bringing the moving image into the modern art world."
- John Hanhardt
George Maciunas
Nam June Paik's prepared toy piano at his Exposition of Music – Electronic Television, Galerie Parnass, Wuppertal, March 11-20, 1963
@MuseumModernArt
Nam June Paik by Eric Kroll, 1979
@americanart
"Decades before Snapchat and Instagram, Paik became the first major artist to foresee how mass media would give way to multidirectional communication."
- @jsf
Nam June Paik
“TV Garden” (1974-77)
Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Dusseldorf
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