Nam June Paik’s performance art piece entitled TV Bra for Living Sculpture was one of Paik’s more influential works whose subject matter centered on the progression of technology. Performance art, which is a theatrical way of staging art, was a specialty of Paik’s. He was an essential pioneer in the crusade to incorporate moving images into artistic mediums, a seriously radical invention of the twentieth century. Paik was renowned for his ability to present serious content in radical self-parodies
mobile and TV set and still consider ourselves not disconnected from the rest of the world? Maybe not, maybe technology already as the power to change our life and like one of Nam June Paik's robots we are already half men and half machine. The increasingly present electronic moving image and media technology in the 20th century
Throughout history, technological development has increased society’s need to observe one’s self within both media, and a real life setting. Nam June Paik’s “TV Buddha”, pictured below, (1974) is an example of how technology garners the attention of an individual to their self, facilitated through many forms of media, in this scenario, television. This work translates the artists intended reaction into the audience’s incidental reaction, as well as the way in which the artwork transmits its message
suggested how art might exercise a healing property on both the artist and the audience when psychological, social, and political are the influence. Beuys was a crucial member in the 1960s Fluxus movement, along with his contemporaries Yoko Ono and Nam June Paik. During the movement, many artists befell dissatisfied with the traditional standard of heroic, religious, or rather object-oriented painting and sculpture that had been long in place before them. Influenced in part by existing experimentations
S. From 1969 to 1973 he attended Syracuse University which was when he first began to work with video. During that time he was someone who prepared museum displays at Syracuse’s Everson Museum of Art. In doing so he worked with people such as Nam June Paik and Peter Campus. Peter Campus being another one of those artist known for his implementation of technology into his art. He made these interactive and single channel video works that were similar to Viola’s work. From 1974 to 1976 Viola was in
Within new media, there exists the desire and possibility to produce new effects upon the viewer, to grant new experiences. Pipilotti Rist seeks the creation of virtual utopias within the limitations of the video medium in installations such as her recent work at the Museum of Modern Art, Pour Your Body Out (7354 Cubic Meters) in 2009. The work transforms the typically bare atrium of the Museum of Modern Art into an active environment, where a reciprocal relationship between the viewer and the
gestures and expressions. During the 1970s and 1980s, he was an artist-in-residence at a number of media laboratories and television stations, while also serving as an assistant keeper at Everson museum of Art where he exposed to the work of Nam June Paik and Peter Campus, artists who were early innovators in the emerging field of video art. Eventually, Viola developed of multi-channel and captivating installations where viewers are surrounded by carefully arranged screens and projections, sometimes
Museums house great works of art, fragments of history, and cultural experiences all within four walls. By visiting a museum, one can be instantly transported to another place or time. Whether that place is beautiful or grotesque, the emotions experienced are both genuine and authentic. The Orange County Museum of Art (acronymized as OCMA), located in Newport Beach, is one such structure of art and experience. Currently on display are the exhibitions of Chinese artist Shi Zhiying and “Pivotal: Highlights