Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV. The film emphasizes the prescience of his work, and the courage he showed in dedicating his life to the moving image at a time when painting topped the art ...

“Nam June was trying to make his work accessible by putting it on public television and not just keeping it in the confines of the art world.” Paik’s sense of play further extended to his ...

American Masters – Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV traces the life and work of the avant-garde artist best known as the father of video art. Narrated by Oscar® nominee Steven Yeun.

Nam June Paik's been called the "father of video art ... His early art was excoriated by art critics, but his later work — from an installation featuring a Buddha propped in front of a ...

Nam June Paik is often considered the godfather of video ... Paik worked to make television a global community, a continual work in progress. He also filled museums with video creations that ...

The artist Nam June Paik is often described as a prophet ... Far from dystopian, Paik’s work aimed to inspire a resistance to mass media as unidirectional; he wanted us, as audience members ...

Nam June Paik answers with his famous TV Buddha installation ... the Buddha and feeds a live image of it into the screen. The work is simple and funny, yet, like Paik’s best work, allows ...

By Jordan Mintzer The documentary Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV, which explores the groundbreaking artist’s life and work, is like nothing Paik ever would have made himself. It’s far ...

"Nam June Paik: The Miami Years" explores Paik's life ... and Paik was often invited to present work in a number of different small or larger programs," Voorhies says. The curator estimates ...

“It wasn’t easy,” recalls Nam June Paik’s New York landlord ... focuses on both the life and work of Paik, who died in 2006 and had been part of an artistic generation deeply influenced ...