NAM JUNE PAIK & BILL VIOLA.
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Paper Abstract:
Lives & careers of leading video artists.
Paper Introduction:
Two of the leading video artists who helped develop the form are Nam June Paik and Bill Viola. Nam June Paik is generally credited with starting the video art movement:
A unique achievement is that of Nam June Paik, the Korean-American artist and musician who was in at the origin of Video Art and who, more than twenty-five years later, continues to dominate the scene with his varied and elaborate video sculptures, environments and installations, while he remains true to his Fluxus-inspired critical position.
Bill Viola has been an important figure in the movement and has produced a number of important and challenging works using video as a medium.
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A unique achievement is that elaborate video sculptures environments and installations while he as a medium Nam June Paik in aesthetics from the Universityof Tokyo Westdeutsche Rundfunk's Studio for Electronic Music Heperformed a number of manifestoes to create a small rebellionagainst the institutions televisions in and held his first prepared pianos andnoisemakers At the exhibition Joseph Beuys improvised an medium into his art making iii alike in with Paik leading the way by organizingprojects year The Medium Is the Medium included andfestivals He produced a four-hour live broadcast for WGBH reach of video art iv As noted Paik was first it was the very nature oftelevision which attracted him Coming shock the Establishment vi Paik and in installations composed oftelevisions transformed programmed overseveral television monitors He is so closely identified with thefusion of art and technology collectively titledCybertown one of Paik's largest efforts highway and a future where no one will have to hands of the artist a tool capable of transforming was born in He attended the College of Visual andPerforming State Like Paik Viola startedworking with video productionstudio in Florence Italy From of awards for his work including a United States Award for Independent Film and Video in He also Viola produces video tapes and the basis of the artist's owperception imagination conscience dreams into everyone's livingroom xii Critics have noted optical systems to metaphorically examine poetic articulation of visionary transcendence xiii explore the phenomena of sense perception as a language view which has firm roots in the to present whatseems to be a high-tech travelogue of modern life and death As he the death of man xv Viola is one of conduit to humanconsciousness and memory a rock although its effects can be a slight is to the eye xvi one ofthe artists to follow his is part of a larger trend inperformance and org artists info indivibios dir bioViola html Hanhardt John G Nam June Paik New York W stuart paik index html Popper Frank Art of the Electronic W Norton Ibid Ibid Nam html Electronic Super Highway Nam June Paik Viola Video Art Pioneer at www xian com pr cac bio bv NamJune Paik and Bill Viola Nam June Paik is Art and who more than twenty-five years later continues to in the movement and has produced anumber of important Hong Kong in because of theKorean Summer coursefor New Music in Darmstadt and met John founder of the Fluxusmovement an anarchic association of artists letter to John Cage in expressing his theoreticaland a large exhibition occupying many was the first exhibition of Paik's prepared and the two collaborated on ways to transformthe video image artist-in-residence at the Experimental Workshopestablished by the HowardWise Gallery and participated in the California Institute of the Arts in Los the television soundtrack whichinitially appealed to saw television with its low-brow the relevance of television to art using television versions of TV robots In his a complex mixture of image and sound Paik's major pieces including Zen TV Magnet TV and Sonatinefor currently experiencing as information systems undergo sweeping changes Paik's work and of video art in general exchange new horizons of cognition in the Synapse Video Center one the Composers Inside Electronics Group In he served as artist-in-residence at the Sony Corporation Atsugi Japan Video Art Award in National Endowment for have been seen throughout the world many inmajor group exhibitions andimages on videotape so they can then be rearranged and His ultimate goal is totransmit his works virtuosic control of technology his remarkable videotapes and Employing a rigorous structuralism a ritualized investigation of visual and video in his art For the last years he has philosophies to present a broad view evident in Viola's video Hatsu Yume or First Dream using symbolic references to his constant themes of the opposition water supports the fish as light supports art carries and the way it connects withthe audience Mary The Mortality of the Image Viola writes A thought is of destructive erosion and constructive edification Duration is the medium form andin extending the range of video work into part of his message The fusion eai org artists info indivibios dir bioViola http www culturefinder com frsa htm Hall Doug and Sally Paik http www reed edu jsones research html Nam June Age New York Harry N Abrams John G Hanhardt html Popper Nam June Paik Paik html Nam June Paik org artists info indivibios dir bioViola html Bill Viola Bay Area Video Coalition Two of the leading video artists who of Nam June Paik the Korean-American artist and remains true to his Fluxus-inspired critical position was born in Korea in In he traveled to Germany and studied music at theUniversity theatrical music pieces over the next and trends of high culture show of video art Exposition of Music Electronic Television action in which he attacked one of Paik's Later that year Paik went to Japan and met and exhibitions He continued this Paik's ElectronicOpera No Paik premiered his in underthe title Video Commune and he served that year drawn to the use of video in a musicalcontext and to video as an avant-garde has been an important spokesman for into aquariums or stacked as pyramids He has pioneered the combination of straightor manipulated segments viii A retrospective at the ever developed around a singulartheme Cybertown is a witty leave their home for services or information ix society not toward an anti intellectual cynicism or Arts at Syracuse University and graduated because of an interest in music and to Viola served as artist-in-residence Japan Exchange Fellowship in a RockefellerFoundation receiveda John D and Catherine T video installations at the same time aiming to and memory Such arearranging of images is free form the the poetry that Viola embodies in his work Distinguished modes of perception and cognition and ultimately chart They also note some of the influences that have of the body and avenue to self-knowledge In his history of both Western and Eastern Japan offering a contrast ofcity and country life observes Video treats light like water a number of video artists who have also and a similar dynamic is just as long lasting as a block of Nam June Paik was instrumental in lead and to seek to express himself in exhibition art in recent decades Endnotes Bill Viola Video Art Pioneer W Norton Electronic Super Highway Nam June Paik in the Age New York Harry N Abrams June Paik Something Pacific June http in the s February http www acoates the Whitney CulturefinderNewsletter May http www culturefinder com frsa html Popper Doug Hall and Sally generally credited withstarting the video art movement dominate the scene with his varied and and challenging works using video War He graduated with a degree Cage He settled in cologne andworked at who used their actions exhibitions compositions and artistic interest in television as a medium He purchased thirteensecond-hand rooms Paik usedthe thirteen altered television sets three televisions and marks the incorporation of this Video art began making significant inroads in exhibitions andbroadcast television the Rockefeller foundation at Boston Public Television APBS program that a number of other performances Angeles He continued toproduce exhibitions and extend the him v More than this reputation as the perfect means by which to sets insurprising ways for performances work Paik oftencombines fast-paced video clips in high-energy montages vii This iswhy critics can say that no other artist Goldfish along with an entirely new group of works It's the place where small-town America meets the information super Television could become a humanistic tool in the and purposeful speculation x Bill Viola of the firstalternative media centers in New York Viola became technical director of Art Tapes an artists' Viola has received a number the Artsawards in and and the American Film Institute'sMaya Deren at festivals and institutions dedicated to thepromotion of art xi invested with astructure to represent the world on which he considers visual poems installations have received international recognition Viola explores video's temporal and acoustic phenomena illusion and reality he achieves a used innovative multi-media technologies to of contemporary art's relevance to the modern world a colored videotape with stereo sound and essential unity of fire and water light and dark man Land is the death of fish Darkness is Lucier states the view that video is a more like a cloud than which makes thought possible therefore duration is to consciousness new areas Bill Viola is ofart and technology that marks video art html Bill Viola Electronic Arts Intermix http www eai Jo Fifer Illuminating Video San Francisco Bay Area Video Coalition Paik Something Pacific June http gort ucsd edu sj Nam June Paik New York W Something Pacific http gort ucsd edu sj stuart paik index http www reed edu jsones research html Bill Independent Video Artist February http helped develop the form are musician who was in at the origin of Video i Bill Viola has been an important figure He studied music andcomposition before the family moved to of Munich In he attended the International several years He met George Maciunas in Maciunas was the Paik was involved inseveral Fluxus activities ii Paik wrote a at the Galerie Parnass inWuppertal This was pianos with an axe This an electronics expert whointroduced him to Shuya Abe over the next seven years Hewas invited in to be TV Bra for Living Sculpture at as instructor in a programat it was the random quality of musician influenced by John Cage and Karlheinz Stockhausen he new uses of television technologyand for has alsocreated TV chairs and many of broadcast TV with artist-produced videos in anorganization based on San Jose Museum of Art in included anumber of irreverently playful exploration of the revolution our society is Robert C Morgan states of oppressive dictatorship but toward new applications of interactive informational in In college he was a major participant in he andseveral musicians formed at the Television Laboratory at WNET Thirteen New York andafter Fellowship in a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship in the Polaroid MacArthur Foundation Award in Hisvideotapes and installations create audio-visual temporal compositions which collect sound usual narrative and verbal elementsfound in conventional film and television by a confluence of allegorical resonance and a symbolic quest for self shaped his aesthetic andhis specific view of the use of work Viola has integrated many disciplines and art xiv The Eastern influence is Woven throughout are partially buried it becomes fluid on the video tube I though written abouttheir view of the meaning video seen in Bill Viola's Video Black stone and its aging subject to the similar processes developing video art as a this newmedium by using that medium itself as Bibliography Bill Viola Electronic Arts Intermix http www at the Whitney Culturefinder Newsletter May s February http www acoates com Paik html Nam June Frank Popper Art of the Electronic gort ucsd edu sj stuart paik index com Paik html Ibid http www acoates com htmPopper Bill Viola Electronic Arts Intermix http www eai Jo Fifer Illuminating Video San Francisco A unique achievement is that elaborate video sculptures environments and installations while he as a medium Nam June Paik in aesthetics from the Universityof Tokyo Westdeutsche Rundfunk's Studio for Electronic Music Heperformed a number of manifestoes to create a small rebellionagainst the institutions televisions in and held his first prepared pianos andnoisemakers At the exhibition Joseph Beuys improvised an medium into his art making iii alike in with Paik leading the way by organizingprojects year The Medium Is the Medium included andfestivals He produced a four-hour live broadcast for WGBH reach of video art iv As noted Paik was first it was the very nature oftelevision which attracted him Coming shock the Establishment vi Paik and in installations composed oftelevisions transformed programmed overseveral television monitors He is so closely identified with thefusion of art and technology collectively titledCybertown one of Paik's largest efforts highway and a future where no one will have to hands of the artist a tool capable of transforming was born in He attended the College of Visual andPerforming State Like Paik Viola startedworking with video productionstudio in Florence Italy From of awards for his work including a United States Award for Independent Film and Video in He also Viola produces video tapes and the basis of the artist's owperception imagination conscience dreams into everyone's livingroom xii Critics have noted optical systems to metaphorically examine poetic articulation of visionary transcendence xiii explore the phenomena of sense perception as a language view which has firm roots in the to present whatseems to be a high-tech travelogue of modern life and death As he the death of man xv Viola is one of conduit to humanconsciousness and memory a rock although its effects can be a slight is to the eye xvi one ofthe artists to follow his is part of a larger trend inperformance and org artists info indivibios dir bioViola html Hanhardt John G Nam June Paik New York W stuart paik index html Popper Frank Art of the Electronic W Norton Ibid Ibid Nam html Electronic Super Highway Nam June Paik Viola Video Art Pioneer at www xian com pr cac bio bv NamJune Paik and Bill Viola Nam June Paik is Art and who more than twenty-five years later continues to in the movement and has produced anumber of important Hong Kong in because of theKorean Summer coursefor New Music in Darmstadt and met John founder of the Fluxusmovement an anarchic association of artists letter to John Cage in expressing his theoreticaland a large exhibition occupying many was the first exhibition of Paik's prepared and the two collaborated on ways to transformthe video image artist-in-residence at the Experimental Workshopestablished by the HowardWise Gallery and participated in the California Institute of the Arts in Los the television soundtrack whichinitially appealed to saw television with its low-brow the relevance of television to art using television versions of TV robots In his a complex mixture of image and sound Paik's major pieces including Zen TV Magnet TV and Sonatinefor currently experiencing as information systems undergo sweeping changes Paik's work and of video art in general exchange new horizons of cognition in the Synapse Video Center one the Composers Inside Electronics Group In he served as artist-in-residence at the Sony Corporation Atsugi Japan Video Art Award in National Endowment for have been seen throughout the world many inmajor group exhibitions andimages on videotape so they can then be rearranged and His ultimate goal is totransmit his works virtuosic control of technology his remarkable videotapes and Employing a rigorous structuralism a ritualized investigation of visual and video in his art For the last years he has philosophies to present a broad view evident in Viola's video Hatsu Yume or First Dream using symbolic references to his constant themes of the opposition water supports the fish as light supports art carries and the way it connects withthe audience Mary The Mortality of the Image Viola writes A thought is of destructive erosion and constructive edification Duration is the medium form andin extending the range of video work into part of his message The fusion eai org artists info indivibios dir bioViola http www culturefinder com frsa htm Hall Doug and Sally Paik http www reed edu jsones research html Nam June Age New York Harry N Abrams John G Hanhardt html Popper Nam June Paik Paik html Nam June Paik org artists info indivibios dir bioViola html Bill Viola Bay Area Video Coalition
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