NAM JUNE PAIK DAY
New sensibility in exploring new possibilities.
Fact, a very old relationship.
Combination of high art and high tech.
Japan: create the first video synthesizer.
Culture very well developed.
Concept the context / context the concept.
Satellites: we want to use them.
Pyramids the first example:
many of the cutting edge technologies of the time.
Raised dramatically when
backgrounds Marcel Duchamp.
Discoveries in this field every
day a single hologram contains
saying: we are creating a new . . .
Barry Alpert / Silver Spring MD US / 7-20-11 (2:06 PM)
An email today reminded me of this occasion while I was trying to decipher drafts written in the dark watching films by Rohmer and Melville. Quickly switching strategies, I chanced upon a manageable text and a doubly-formal structure. In 1974 I was lucky enough to live right next door to Nam June Paik for a period of roughly 3 months, but at this moment I can't retrieve any Paik language I may have incorporated into my journals. I will be thinking of his unannounced performance in the Clinton White House (hoping that someone will reenact it) when I attend this event today:
Join John Hanhardt, senior curator for media arts, and artist Jim Campbell in the Watch This! gallery for a dialogue about the legacy of Nam June Paik, internationally recognized as the father of video art, on his birthday. After the talk, the discussion continues in the Luce Foundation Center over Paik cake and refreshments.
Smithsonian American Art Museum, 7-20-11, 6 PM
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