Nam June Paik

Considered to be the founder of video art, Nam June Paik (1932-2006) was a visionary artist who foresaw the importance of massmedia and new technology, and its impact on visual culture.His cutting-edge, innovative, yet playfully entertaining workcontinues to be a major influence on art and culture to this day.This ground-breaking publication focuses on Paik's pivotal rolein the cross-germination of radical aesthetics and experimentalpractices, emphasising his visionary insight and his pioneeringrole in the emergence and proliferation of performative andcollaborative art practice. Bringing together works that span a fivedecadecareer, and including archival materials and excerpts ofPaik's own writings, this book offers an in-depth understanding ofthe artist's innovative practice and his vision of a multidisciplinaryfuture. His ideas such as `Eurasia' and `Electronic Superhighway',and his profound insight into a global age will be analysed in thecontext of transnationalism for the first t