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During 19 the engineers Hideo Uchida and Shuya Abe showed Paik how to interfere with the flow of electrons in color TV sets, work that led to the Abe-Paik video synthesizer, a key element in his future TV work. Ĭage suggested Paik look into Oriental music and Oriental religion. In a 1960 piano performance in Cologne, he played Chopin, threw himself on the piano and rushed into the audience, attacking Cage and pianist David Tudor by cutting their clothes with scissors and dumping shampoo on their heads.
He made his big debut in 1963 at an exhibition known as Exposition of Music-Electronic Television at the Galerie Parnass in Wuppertal in which he scattered televisions everywhere and used magnets to alter or distort their images. Nam June Paik then began participating in the Neo-Dada art movement, known as Fluxus, which was inspired by the composer John Cage and his use of everyday sounds and noises in his music. Pre-Bell-Man, statue in front of the 'Museum für Kommunikation', Frankfurt am Main, Germany
While studying in Germany, Paik met the composers Karlheinz Stockhausen and John Cage and the conceptual artists Sharon Grace as well as George Maciunas, Joseph Beuys and Wolf Vostell and was from 1962 on, a member of the experimental art movement Fluxus. Paik then moved to West Germany to study music history with composer Thrasybulos Georgiades at Munich University. Paik graduated with a BA in aesthetics from the University of Tokyo in 1956, where he wrote a thesis on the composer Arnold Schoenberg. In 1950, during the Korean War, Paik and his family fled from their home in Korea, first fleeing to Hong Kong, but later moving to Japan. As he was growing up, he was trained as a classical pianist. His father (who in 2002 was revealed to be a Chinilpa, or a Korean who collaborated with the Japanese during the latter's occupation of Korea) owned a major textile manufacturing firm. Early lifeīorn in Seoul in 1932, the youngest of five siblings, Paik had two older brothers and two older sisters. He is credited with the first use (1974) of the term "electronic super highway" to describe the future of telecommunications. He worked with a variety of media and is considered to be the founder of video art. Nam June Paik ( Korean: J– January 29, 2006) was a Korean American artist.