Nam June Paik

Nam June Paik (1932-2006) was a Korean-American artist who revolutionized contemporary art by making video and television his primary artistic medium. Born in Seoul, Korea, Paik studied music and art history in Japan and Germany, where he met avant-garde composers like John Cage and Karlheinz Stockhausen. These encounters profoundly shaped his understanding of art as an experimental, time-based practice that could break down barriers between disciplines. In the early 1960s,…