{"id":258051,"date":"2024-04-28T11:46:37","date_gmt":"2024-04-28T02:46:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.adfwebmagazine.jp\/?p=258051"},"modified":"2024-04-28T11:46:37","modified_gmt":"2024-04-28T02:46:37","slug":"nam-june-paik-the-video-artist-who-fell-in-love-with-miami","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adfwebmagazine.jp\/en\/art\/nam-june-paik-the-video-artist-who-fell-in-love-with-miami\/","title":{"rendered":"Nam June Paik, the video artist who fell in love with Miami"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach\u2019s contemporary art museum, is now hosting\u00a0Nam June Paik: The Miami Years\u00a0exhibition<\/h3>\r\n

W<\/span>hat\u2019s new in my obsessions? Experiencing the summer during winter. I recently came back from Miami, the motherland of palm trees, oranges, and mixed cultures, an incredible match of different backgrounds displayed together.<\/p>\r\n

Surprisingly, Miami has been a welcoming city for migratory flows from neighboring and non-neighboring countries, which led to the generation of a Spanish-based cultural fervor (the second-largest U.S. city with a Spanish-speaking majority after\u00a0El Paso, Texas<\/a>), which still fuels the city.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n

In this scenario, you can breathe a history of contamination which, over the years, has made the destination the home of Vice(s)<\/i> but also a landscape of experimentation, encounters, celebrations, and an enviable artistic, engineering, and human dare so rare that it is hard to believe in.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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Nam June Paik, in Miami FL, 1990. Photography by Brian Smith.<\/p><\/div>

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Bakelite Robot, 2002. In 1986, he introduced Family of Robot, a series of nearly life-sized anthropomorphic sculptures that symbolized a family nucleus, within which each member represented household electronics such as radio, televisions playing his works.
\r\nPicture courtesy of the Bass<\/p><\/div>\r\n\r\n

The other one (besides me) who fell completely in love with the city was Nam June Paik.<\/p>\r\n

Within a contemporary world dominated by electronic devices and -nowadays- video-based social networks, it is strange that his name does not come up very often.<\/p>\r\n

So who is Nam June Paik?<\/p>\r\n

Well, basically he is known to be the \u201cfather of video art\u201d. He pioneered the field through a unique way of using digitized composition, by combining them with unusual devices and supports as a creative expression.<\/p>\r\n

Robots, video synthesizers, experimental music and working methods. Paik established himself as one of the early innovators of video art and set the stage for many of the contemporary art practices we see today. Through groundbreaking performances, immersive artworks and interdisciplinary collaborations, Paik established new approaches to music and television, changing the way we look at screens.<\/p>\r\n