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Considered to be the founder of video art, Nam June Paik (1932 2006) was a visionary artist who foresaw the importance of mass media and new technology, and its impact on visual culture. Paik's cutting-edge, innovative, yet playfully entertaining work continues to be a major influence on art and culture to this day. This ground-breaking publication focuses on Paik's pivotal role in the cross-germination of radical aesthetics and experimental practices, emphasising his visionary insight and his pioneering role in the emergence and proliferation of performative and collaborative art practice. Bringing together works that span a five-decade career, and including archival materials and excerpts of Paik's own writings, this book offers an in-depth understanding of the artist's innovative practice and his vision of a multidisciplinary future. His ideas such as Eurasia and Electronic Superhighway, and his profound insight into a global age will be analysed in the context of transnationalism for the first time. In addition, texts will elaborate upon Paik's collaborations with other artists, musicians and choreographers, such as Charlotte Moorman, John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Joseph Beuys and Fluxus, highlighting Paik's global trajectory and considerable impact on digital culture, which connect his art to a new generation.

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Sook-Kyung Lee is Senior Research Curator, Tate Modern. Rudolf Frieling is Curator of Media Arts, SFMOMA. John G. Hanhardt is an author, art historian and curator of film and media arts. Rachel Jans is Assistant Curator of Painting and Sculpture at SFMOMA. Susanne Neuburger is a curator and the Collection Director at the Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna. David Toop is a musician, author and professor and chair of audio culture and improvisation at the London College of Communication.

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