Three eggs nam june paik biography full

Nam June Paik. Photo by Peter Moore, courtesy of Barbara Moore. He was trained as a classical pianist at a young age. Paik and his family ended up in Japan when they fled Korea during the Korean War in Paik attended and graduated from the University of Tokyo in with a B. He wrote his thesis on the composer Arnold Schoenberg.

Paik went to West Germany in to pursue music and study with composers Thrasybulus Georgiades and Wolfgang Fortner. While in Germany, Paik also met avant-garde musician John Cage, whose experimental performances inspired Paik so much that he began to shift his focus from classical music to multimedia art.

Three eggs nam june paik biography full: The Korean-born Fluxus pioneer saw

In the early s, Paik joined the recently founded Fluxus, an international and interdisciplinary community of artists, composers, designers and poets known for prioritizing the artistic process over the finished product and their experimental contributions to different artistic disciplines. He set up multiple televisions, distorted them, made them participatory, and put them in the gallery setting for the first time.

Paik briefly returned to Japan this year and brought back with him a Sony Port-a-Pak, the first commercially available portable video recorder, continuing his work in video art.