Nam June Paik

Q: Did Nam June Paik win any awards?

Yes, Nam June Paik received several awards throughout his career, including the Golden Lion for Best Pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 1993.

Q: What was Nam June Paik's first major work?

One of Paik's first major works was 'TV Buddha' created in 1974, which features a Buddha statue watching itself on a television screen.

Q: How did Nam June Paik influence video art?

Nam June Paik significantly influenced video art by integrating technology with artistic expression, paving the way for future generations of video artists.

Q: What was Nam June Paik's background?

Nam June Paik was born in South Korea and later moved to the United States, where he became a prominent figure in the art and music scenes.

Q: What is Nam June Paik's estimated net worth?

Nam June Paik's estimated net worth is around $10 million, reflecting his success and impact in the art world.

Q: What themes are prevalent in Nam June Paik's work?

Nam June Paik's work often explores themes of technology, culture, and communication, examining the relationship between media and society.

Q: How did Nam June Paik's career begin?

Nam June Paik began his career as a composer and musician before transitioning into visual art, ultimately becoming a pioneer in video art.

Known for

Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV poster

Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV (2023)

2023 / Documentary / 107mins

The quixotic journey of Nam June Paik, one of the most famous Asian artists of the 20th century, who revolutionized the use of technology...

Name

Nam June Paik

Height

5 ft 8 in (1.73 m)

Born

20 July 1932, Seoul, South Korea

Spouses

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Estimated Net Worth

$10 million

Year	Title	Character	Rating
2023	Movie Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV The quixotic journey of Nam June Paik, one of the most famous Asian artists of the 20th century, who revolutionized...	Self (archive footage)	TMDB 6.8 / 10
2020	Movie Tapes The tapes in the program consist of some of Mekas’ earliest cassettes from the 1990s not long after he first...	Unknown character	Not rated
2019	Movie Kill Your TV: Jim Moir’s Weird World of Video Art Jim Moir (aka Vic Reeves) explores Video Art, revealing how different generations ‘hacked’ the tools of television to pioneer new...	Unknown character	Not rated
2018	Movie George: The Story of George Maciunas and Fluxus In 1961 Lithuanian American artist and impresario George Maciunas established the avant-garde art movement Fluxus. George details the rise of...	Self (archive footage)	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2011	Movie Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film Experimental filmmaker Pip Chodorov traces the course of experimental film in America, taking the very personal point of view of...	Himself (archive footage)	TMDB 6.8 / 10
2011	Movie Re: Maciunas and Fluxus “Drawing on his personal archives, Mekas has assembled a Fluxus vaudeville starring Yoko Ono, Joseph Beuys, and the late Nam...	Unknown character	Not rated
2008	Movie Joseph Beuys - Coyote III DVD accompanying the book "Coyote III", documenting Joseph Beuys and Nam June Paik performing at the Sôgetsu Hall in Tokyo...	Himself	Not rated
2007	Movie 365 Day Project This exhibition focuses on Jonas Mekas’ 365 Day Project, a succession of films and videos in calendar form. Every day...	Self	TMDB 10.0 / 10
2006	Movie Winter in Miami 2005 Kubota's tribute to her husband, artist Nam June Paik, who died at their home in Miami in January 2006.	Self	Not rated
2006	Movie Nam June Paik: Lessons from the Video Master Friends and colleagues (including Yoko Ono and Merce Cunningham) of Nam June Paik share their thoughts about the groundbreaking multimedia...	Self (archive footage)	Not rated
2003	Movie Nam June Paik: The Tiger Lives A documentary about the life and work of video artist Nam June Paik made by the Korean Broadcasting Network.	Self	Not rated
2000	Movie As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty A compilation of over 30 years of private home movie footage shot by Lithuanian-American avant-garde director Jonas Mekas, assembled by...	Self	TMDB 7.8 / 10
1999	Movie April is the Cruelest Month Kubota continues her ongoing video diary project. Here she reflects on her relationship with her husband Nam June Paik.	Self	Not rated
1998	Movie Sexual Healing An intimate and humorous portrait of her husband, artist Nam June Paik, as he undergoes physical therapy after an illness.	Self	Not rated
1995	Movie "Topless Cellist" Charlotte Moorman Nam June Paik's first single-channel videotape since 1989 is a heartfelt tribute to his long-time collaborator Charlotte Moorman. This portrait...	Unknown character	TMDB 5.7 / 10
1994	Movie The Electronic Super Highway: Nam June Paik in the Nineties A portrait of Nam June Paik produced as a 'video catalog' for the exhibition 'The Electronic Super Highway', which premiered...	Self	Not rated
1993	Movie The Misfits - 30 Years of Fluxus The film portrays a group of artists who since the early 1960s have completely disrupted our ideas of what art...	Self	TMDB 7.0 / 10
1987	Movie Back to Fucking Cambridge About a group of graduates from Cambridge University who go back to their college to visit a friend who has...	Anton von Webern	TMDB 8.0 / 10
1986	Movie Bye Bye Kipling This ambitious live satellite link-up of Japan, Korea and the United States features interviews with Keith Haring and architect Arata...	Self	Not rated
1986	Movie He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life A film collage tracing the story of the lives, loves, and deaths within the artistic community surrounding Jonas Mekas.	Self (archive footage)	TMDB 8.4 / 10
1985	Movie All Star Video A compilation of avant-garde artwork and talent of the mid to late 20th century hosted by Ryuichi Sakamoto.	Self	TMDB 6.5 / 10
1985	Movie Home Movies 1971-81 Home movies shot on Super 8mm by W+B Hein over 10 years.	Unknown character	Not rated
1984	Movie Trip to Korea Single channel video (color; sound; 1984)	Unknown character	Not rated
1984	Movie Persistence of Vision A short documentary profile of the Anthology Film Archives, shot on the eve of the move to the historic 2nd...	Self	Not rated
1982	Movie Bonjour Nam June Paik I A Super 8 work made in New York after Nam June Paik invited Kim Soungui to the city.	Unknown character	Not rated
1979	Movie Flux-Concert On March 24, 1979, The Kitchen presented a two-part program dedicated to the work of various Fluxus artists. The programming...	Self	Not rated
1977	Movie Nam June Paik: The Good Conscience of the Avant Garde The film about Nam June Paik, the pioneer of video art, provides insight into his multifaceted artistic work and at...	Self	Not rated
1976	Movie A Tribute to John Cage A Tribute to John Cage is Paik's homage to avant-garde composer John Cage. A major figure in contemporary art and...	Unknown character	TMDB 6.0 / 10
1975	Movie Video: The New Wave The New Wave is the seminal compendium of independent video work in the early 1970s. Written and narrated by Brian...	Unknown character	Not rated
1975	Movie Nam June Paik: Edited for Television Produced for public television station WNET/Thirteen in New York, Nam June Paik: Edited for Television is a provocative portrait of...	Self	Not rated
1974	Movie ‘Rameau’s Nephew’ by Diderot (Thanx to Dennis Young) by Wilma Schoen Various unrelated vignettes, often juxtaposing sound and image.	Tom	TMDB 7.8 / 10
1973	Movie 26'1.1499" For A String Player This tape is Jud Yalkut's video realization of Charlotte Moorman and Nam June Paik's concert performance of John Cage's composition...	Unknown character	Not rated
1969	Movie Seminar An unreleased diary film shot during the Fairleigh-Dickinson Artist Seminar simultaneous to the production of Back and Forth by Michael...	Self	Not rated
1966	Movie Kunst und Ketchup Early documentary about the pop art scene and happenings in Germany.	Unknown character	Not rated
1966	Movie P+A-I(k) 1966, 16mm film on video, black-and-white and color; 10 minutes	Unknown character	Not rated
1964	Movie Hi-Red Centre Shelter Plan Hi-Red Centre were comprised of Genpei Akasegawa, Natsuyuki Nakanishi and Jiro Takamatsu, who enacted ‘happening’-style performance art in unusual spaces...	Unknown character	Not rated
1964	Movie Stockhausen's Originale: Doubletakes This fascinating film documents the U.S. premiere production of Originale, a Happening by German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen. Filmed at the...	Unknown character	Not rated
1962	Movie Nam June Paik Short film about performance, realized when Nam June Paik participated in Karlheinz Stockhausen's piece "Originale" in Cologne in 1961.	Self	Not rated
TBA	Movie Thirty Second Spots: TV Commercials for Artists (1982-83) Inverting the form, style and time frame of commercial television advertising, Logue has produced a unique series of dynamic video...	Nam June Paik	Not rated
TBA	Movie Processing the Signal	Himself	Not rated

Year	Title	Role	Rating
2010	Movie Fluxfilm Anthology 1962-1970 Feature-length compilation program presenting 37 out of 41 original fluxfilms produced and directed in the 1960s by Fluxus artists, including...	Director Directing	Not rated
2000	Movie Analogue Assemblage Drawing from Paik's earliest experiments with video synthesizers, Analogue Assemblage employs current technology to create a multilayered montage that references...	Director Directing	Not rated
1995	Movie "Topless Cellist" Charlotte Moorman Nam June Paik's first single-channel videotape since 1989 is a heartfelt tribute to his long-time collaborator Charlotte Moorman. This portrait...	Director Directing	TMDB 5.7 / 10
1993	Movie Sistine Chapel Sistine Chapel is an audio-visual collage of new footage and samples from Paik’s past videos, which featured many of his...	Editor Editing	Not rated
1993	Movie Sistine Chapel Sistine Chapel is an audio-visual collage of new footage and samples from Paik’s past videos, which featured many of his...	Art Direction Art	Not rated
1993	Movie Sistine Chapel Sistine Chapel is an audio-visual collage of new footage and samples from Paik’s past videos, which featured many of his...	Creator Crew	Not rated
1993	Movie Sistine Chapel Sistine Chapel is an audio-visual collage of new footage and samples from Paik’s past videos, which featured many of his...	Director Directing	Not rated
1992	Movie Deoksu Palace	Director Directing	Not rated
1992	Movie Moon is the Oldest TV	Director Directing	Not rated
1992	Movie Video Commune (Beatles from Beginning to End) Video Commune is Jud Yalkut's free-form documentation of Nam June Paik's first interactive television "performance" at the public television station...	Director Directing	Not rated
1990	Movie Beuys Beuys Projection, 1990	Director Directing	Not rated
1989	Movie Living with the Living Theatre One of Paik's most compelling and poignant tapes, Living with the Living Theatre pays tribute to Judith Malina and the...	Director Directing	Not rated
1988	Movie Wrap around the World This spectacular satellite link-up, coordinated by Paik, connected the United States, Brazil, France, Germany, Ireland, Israel, Japan and numerous other...	Director Directing	Not rated
1988	Movie One Candle, One Projection One Candle, One Projection	Director Directing	Not rated
1986	Movie Bye Bye Kipling This ambitious live satellite link-up of Japan, Korea and the United States features interviews with Keith Haring and architect Arata...	Director Directing	Not rated
1986	Movie Adelic Penguins Originally commissioned by the Sony Corporation of Japan and performed live on the JumboTRON, a fourteen-story TV set at the...	Art Direction Art	Not rated
1986	Movie Butterfly The exuberant irreverence and wit of Butterfly characterizes Paik's stream-of-consciousness visual and conceptual techniques. In a vibrant image/music collage, he...	Director Directing	TMDB 6.0 / 10
1985	Movie All Star Video A compilation of avant-garde artwork and talent of the mid to late 20th century hosted by Ryuichi Sakamoto.	Director Directing	TMDB 6.5 / 10
1984	Movie Good Morning, Mr. Orwell In his book "1984", George Orwell saw the television of the future as a control instrument in the hands of...	Director Directing	TMDB 8.1 / 10
1984	Movie Good Morning, Mr. Orwell In his book "1984", George Orwell saw the television of the future as a control instrument in the hands of...	Editor Editing	TMDB 8.1 / 10
1984	Movie Good Morning, Mr. Orwell In his book "1984", George Orwell saw the television of the future as a control instrument in the hands of...	Writer Writing	TMDB 8.1 / 10
1982	Movie Allan ‘n Allen’s Complaint The influence of Jewish fathers on their sons and the complexity of familial relationships are explored in a witty, poignant...	Director Directing	Not rated
1980	Movie Lake Placid '80 Paik produced this exuberant, high-speed collage as a commission for the National Fine Arts Committee of the 1980 Olympic Winter...	Director Directing	TMDB 8.0 / 10
1978	Movie Media Shuttle: New York - Moscow Collaboration with Nam June Paik and Dimitri Devyatkin, combining footage from the US and Russia: Brezhnev on TV, a May...	Director Directing	Not rated
1978	Movie Merce by Merce by Paik Merce by Merce by Paik is a two-part tribute to choreographer Merce Cunningham and artist Marcel Duchamp. The first section,...	Director Directing	TMDB 6.5 / 10
1978	Movie Merce by Merce by Paik Part Two: Merce and Marcel Nam June Paik and Shigeko Kubota remix interviews of Marcel Duchamp and Russell Connor.	Director Directing	Not rated
1977	Movie Guadalcanal Requiem One of Paik’s most overtly political and poignant statements, Guadalcanal Requiem is a performance/documentary collage that confronts history, time, cultural...	Director Directing	TMDB 7.0 / 10
1976	Movie A Tribute to John Cage A Tribute to John Cage is Paik's homage to avant-garde composer John Cage. A major figure in contemporary art and...	Director Directing	TMDB 6.0 / 10
1974	Movie Suite 212 Suite 212 is Paik's "personal New York sketchbook," an electronic collage that presents multiple perspectives of New York's media landscape...	Director Directing	Not rated
1974	Movie TV Buddha One of Nam June Paik’s most iconic works, TV Buddha expresses the contrasts and parallels between East and West and...	Director Directing	Not rated
1974	Movie TV Garden TV Garden is Paik’s imagined future landscape where technology is an integral part of the natural world. Placing television sets...	Director Directing	Not rated
1973	Movie Global Groove Global Groove was a collaborative piece by Nam June Paik and John Godfrey. Paik, amongst other artists who shared the...	Director Directing	TMDB 7.7 / 10
1972	Movie Electronic Yoga Part of the "Video-Film Concert" collection on EAI. From 1966 - 1972. Music by K. S. Narayanaswami.	Director Directing	TMDB 6.0 / 10
1972	Movie Waiting for Commercials Waiting for Commercials is a hilarious compendium of Japanese TV commercials. "Beckett wrote 'Waiting for Godot' twenty years ago, but...	Director Directing	TMDB 10.0 / 10
1972	Movie Electronic Moon No. 2 Part of the "Video-Film Concert" collection released by EAI. From 1966 - 1972.	Director Directing	TMDB 6.5 / 10
1972	Movie Cinema Metaphysique No. 1-5 This early work belongs in the company of Paik and Yalkut's classic collaborative "video-films," including Video Tape Study No. 3,...	Director Directing	Not rated
1971	Movie Electronic Fables Part of a restored collection of rare early works by Nam June Paik, Electronic Fables is an example of Paik's...	Director Directing	Not rated
1971	Movie TV Cello Premiere TV Cello Premiere is a silent film documentation of Charlotte Moorman in her first performance on Paik's eponymous TV Cello...	Director Directing	Not rated
1969	Movie Videotape Study No. 3 Part of a collection of restored early works by Nam June Paik and Jud Yalkut, this piece is historically significant...	Director Directing	TMDB 4.5 / 10
1969	Movie The Medium Is the Medium Produced by WGBH-TV in Boston, the Medium Is the Medium is one of the earliest and most prescient examples of...	Director Directing	Not rated
1969	Movie Electronic Opera no. 1 Nam June Paik’s Electronic Opera no. 1 first aired in 1969 as part of The Medium is the Medium, a...	Director Directing	Not rated
1969	Movie 9/23/69: Experiment with David Atwood This early masterwork of electronic experimentation was created by Paik while he was Artist-in-Residence at WGBH in Boston. The title...	Director Directing	Not rated
1968	Movie Beatles Electroniques Part of a collection of restored early works by Nam June Paik, the haunting Beatles Electronique reveals Paik's engagement with...	Director Directing	TMDB 8.0 / 10
1968	Movie Early Color TV Manipulations Marked by a playful, irreverent sense of improvisation and experimentation, these experiments with image manipulation and synthesis form a link...	Director Directing	Not rated
1967	Movie Missa of Zen In Missa of Zen, a TV screen, filmed from an extremely oblique angle, appears as a ghostly, flickering sliver at...	Director Directing	Not rated
1967	Movie Digital Experiment at Bell Labs Using Bell Lab's pioneering research facilities, Paik creates a starkly minimal experiment in computer imaging, in which a shifting dot...	Director Directing	Not rated
1965	Movie Magnet TV Magnet TV is an early example of Nam June Paik’s “prepared televisions,” in which he altered the television image or...	Director Directing	Not rated
1965	Movie Button Happening Button Happening is Nam June Paik's earliest extant tape, and possibly his first tape ever. Recorded in 1965 on the...	Director Directing	Not rated
1964	Movie Zen for Film In an endless loop, unexposed film runs through the projector. The resulting projected image shows a surface illuminated by a...	Director Directing	TMDB 5.3 / 10

Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV

2023 / TMDB 6.8

Tapes

2020

Kill Your TV: Jim Moir’s Weird World of Video Art

2019

George: The Story of George Maciunas and Fluxus

2018 / TMDB 7.0

Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film

2011 / TMDB 6.8

Re: Maciunas and Fluxus

2011

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