Nam June Paik

I saw some of Nam June Paik’s work when I was living in South Korea. At the time I didn’t know anything about him other than his name and therefore did not understand where he was coming from or what he was trying to show through his work. I just saw a bunch of TVs, took it all in for a bit, and then just continued on through the museum without really taking the time to reflect on his art piece of the large TV tower. But now, after reading about him, I see how important he is to the world of media art. He helped video and film become accepted as new art mediums in and of themselves and also in collaboration with performance. He also brought all of this into a sculptural realm.
I like how his video space is not just projected onto one flat screen but instead can be a part of a three dimensional space existing on a variety of screens placed throughout a room or as in his one art piece, on a person’s body.