Nam June Paik is often credited for inventing video art, so therefore, a useful place to begin researching this project. According to Wikipedia, he was a South Korean-Born America who was born in Seoul. He graduated from Tokyo university and later moved to Germany where he began participating in the neo-Dada movement, known as fluxus.
Expositon of Music-Electronice Television.
It was here that he made his debut before later working with the cellist, Charlotte Moorman, so as to combine music, video and performance art, collaboratively.
Moorman was arrested for going topless in one of Paik performances, entitled "Opera Sextronique".
Along with many other artists including Salvador Dali, in 1984, he aired "Good Morning, Mr Orwell" to show that the impending future put forward in Orwell's book of 1948 had not materialised. This struck a chord with me as I watched the university production of "1984" just this month. Whether or not I would base my work on Nam June Paik, I cannot argue it is vital to study his work in this project as it is arguably a major starting point to this genre.
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