Guadalcanal Requiem, Nam June Paik, 1979, © Nam June
Paik Estate video still Courtesy Electronic Arts Intermix (EIA) New York
Not exact matches
Nam June
Paik, «Merce / Digital,» 1988 single - channel
video sculpture with vintage television cabinets and fifteen monitors; color, silent, collection of Roselyne Chroman Swig, Copyright Nam June
Paik Estate.
★ Smithsonian American Art Museum: «Nam June
Paik: Global Visionary» (through Aug. 11) Including a large and fascinating trove of material from the Nam June
Paik archive, acquired by the Smithsonian from the artist's
estate in 2009, this survey of the avant - garde musician, multimedia wizard and
video art pioneer (1932 - 2006) looks startlingly current despite the preponderance of analog televisions and other obsolete hardware.
Nam June
Paik, Electronic Superhighway: Continental U.S., Alaska, Hawaii, 1995, fifty - one channel
video installation (including one closed - circuit television feed), custom electronics, neon lighting, steel and wood; color, sound, Smithsonian American Art Museum, © Nam June
Paik Estate, Gift of the artist, 2002.23
The Nam June
Paik Archive, consisting of research material, documentation, correspondence, sculptural robots, and
video and television technology from the artist's
estate, is a core part of the initiative.
In Washington, D.C., the National Gallery of Art's collectors committee's purchases included Nam June
Paik's last work of
video sculpture, Ommah, 2005, from the artist's
estate, John McCracken's painted plywood Black Plank, 1967, from New York's David Zwirner Gallery, a set of 10 lithographs by Glenn Ligon, «Runaways,» 1993, and an untitled 1991 photolithograph by Robert Gober.