Nam June Paik
Nam June Pain was born in Korea on July 20, 1932 and past on January 29, 2006. Although he was born in Korea he was considered an American artist. He worked with a variety of media and is considered to be the first Video Artist. Early on in his life he was going to become a musician but soon saw that it wasn't for him. He began participating in the Neo-Data movement. His first exhibit was known as Exposition of Music- Electronic Television. His title indicates that he is transitioning from music to electronic television.
When he first exhibited his work it took place in a small location. People that went to see the art took nothing more than a glance at a room with TV sets. Now this is looked at as the starting point of video art. He has done many pieces integrating television sets in most of his pieces. He has created everything from videos to sculptures made up of television sets. He created the Robot Family, and also created a turtle made up of entirely television sets. As he first started since he didn't have any of high technical software we have now to manipulate video, he would distort the image of an ongoing program with magnets. So that's how he started and later on moved on as technology progressed.
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