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People | The Father of Video Art-NamJune Paik

NamJune Paik, an internationally renowned video artist and world-class master, is known as the "father of video art". NamJune Paik1932 was born in Seoul, the capital of South Korea. 1964 immigrated to the United States and lived in new york for a long time. He is an avant-garde artist who rises with artists such as andy warhol and Bruce Naumann. He is not only a pioneer of video art and multimedia art, but also one of the avant-garde action art and composers with the most international reputation in Asia.

Since the 1960s, NamJune Paik has always insisted on television as the dominant factor in artistic creation. From CCTV devices to video devices, NamJune Paik transformed the cold medium of television into works of art, which perfectly integrated many elements such as art and technology, vision and hearing, eastern and western philosophy, and established the status of a pioneer artist in NamJune Paik.

TV Buddha is one of NamJune Paik's most famous series of works. The bronze Buddha is meditating, and there is a real-time picture of the Buddha statue on TV. Buddhism and television form a closed loop, and the two sides stare at each other, thus falling into a state of "eternal moment".

The work was created on 1974. In the American society where every household had a TV at that time, NamJune Paik used this household appliance as a medium to juxtapose modern emerging technologies with historical and religious issues at that time, and presented them in the form of devices. This work is very Zen: it is better to look at yourself than to look at all beings; If you can't control yourself, Ann can save lives. The TV image Buddha symbolizing western civilization and the statue Buddha symbolizing eastern civilization contain metaphors of confrontation and dialogue between two completely different cultures.

NamJune Paik's minimalist work Movie Zen expounds the concepts of "emptiness" and "nothingness". The length of this work is eight minutes. In eight minutes, there was nothing but a blank image. He described this work as a clear and simple image accumulated in time, dust and scratches. Although there is no content in the image, the audience can take the white image in front of them as the object of meditation, without content and thinking. NamJune Paik looked back at the whole world in such a "nothing" way.