Dear Colleagues,
For those who don't know ... our dear friend and colleague Nam June
Paik passed away last week.
I would like to share part of an email Laurence Gartel sent to me:
I attended the funeral of my dear friend Nam June
Paik yesterday. The funeral took place at the Frank
Campbell Funeral Chapel on 81st Street and Madison
Avenue, New York City.
In attendance were the complete A List of the Art world.
Yoko Ono, Merce Cunningham, Jean Claude and Christo,
Besty Broun director of the Smithsonian, John H. Hanhardt,
curator of the Guggenheim, and Bill Viola.
There were faces in the crowd of people I hadnt seen in some
30 years. German museum director Wulf Herzogenrath told me
that he purchased the "Paik Abe Synthesizer " for his museum. That
was the very first piece of electronic equipment my hands ever touched.
Paik influenced the entire world, taking steps that were not there
before. He called me "A crazy man" because I took stills of moving
images which he was not doing and saw the digital world just above
the mountain. As most of you know, Paik was kind enough to write the
Introduction to my book, "Laurence GARTEL: A Cybernetic Romance,"
published by Gibbs Smith, Utah, 1989. I will forever be indebted to him
for his wonderful words, and kind thoughts.
In true Fluxus style, Paik's nephew Ken Paik Hakuta told everyone to
cut off their neck ties in homage to Paik. Yoko Ono placed half a tie on Paik's
body resting gently. It was indeed outrageous and Paik's final performance.
May the vision of great men live on.
Best
Steve Danzig
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http://www.internationaldigitalart.com/
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