A Video Dad Dies at 73
Korean-born (Seoul) video artist Nam June Paik passed away at the age of 73, Sunday January 29, 2006 in Miami. Paik was widely considered the Father of video art. Often outspoken on the arts, Paik was inevitably mis-quoted at times. One of the more notable was during an interview with a Korean journal in saying, " Art is just fraud. You just have to do something nobody else has done before. " A more serious side of Paik revealed this in saying - in his constant belief and pursuit of combining art and technology - that it was " Not how to make another scientific toy, but how to humanize the technology and the electronic medium. "
My friend in Brussels, Michel Cleempoel, has this to say:
Je vous propose d'éteindre votre tv une minute en guise d'hommage.
For those of you who would like to learn and see more of Nam June Paik's artwork, check out his website:
www.paikstudios.com
"Et celle des artistes Fluxus? A-t-elle eu une grande importance pour vous?".
"Une très grande. Pour tout le monde d'ailleurs. Fluxus est une expérience communautaire. Il ne faut pas exagérer mon rôle; chacun a contribué à
"Pour vous, Fluxus, est-ce un concept artistique?".
"Non, c'est un mode de vie. Et puis, on ne peut jamais tout à fait cesser de penser Fluxus"...
From an interview by Dany Bloch with Nam June Paik, Les Nouvelles Littéraires, December 1978, n° 2664.

