(web image)Selections from the Nam June Paik Archive Smithsonian American Art Museum Gift of the Nam June Paik EstatePhoto by Gene Young.
The Smithsonian American Art Museum has acquired the complete estate archive of the artist Nam June Paik (1932-2006), one of the most influential artists of his generation who transformed television and video into artists' media. Paik's art and ideas embodied a radical new vision for an art form that was embraced around the world and changed global visual culture. With this acquisition, the museum becomes the institution of record for understanding this provocative artist's profound impact on the art world and for understanding the history of the moving image in 20th-century art.The Nam June Paik Archive consists of research material, documentation, correspondence, sculptural robots, and video and television technology. It provides unprecedented insight into Paik's creative process, his sources of inspiration and the communities of artists on three continents with whom he worked for more than five decades beginning in the 1950s. The collective archive includes thousands of individual items that will be cataloged during the next several years. ... e-flux
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