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Smithsonian American Art Museum - ChicagoNam June Paik - 2013

Nam June PaikPrepared Piano

1962-63, vintage piano (Alzinger-Brice Co.)

prepared using various materials,

Courtesy Vehbi Koc Foundation, Istanbul, on loan to the Neues

Museum in Nuremberg, © Nam

June Paik Estate. Photo by Annette Kradisch ©

Neues Museum, Nuremburg

Nam June Paik, Zen for TV - 1963/1976, manipulated television set; black and white, silent, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Byungseol and Dolores An, © Nam June Paik Estate

Nam June PaikZen for TV

1963/1982, manipulated

television set; black and white, silent, Collection

of Marcel Odenbach, ©

Nam June Paik Estate.

Photo by Lothar Schnepf.

Nam June PaikRandom Access

(Schallplattenschasc

hlik), 1963/1979, record player with

lengthened axis, records and

moveable pick-up arm, Courtesy

Vehbi Koc Foundation,

Istanbul, on loan to the Neues Museum

in Nuremberg, © Nam June Paik

Estate. Photo by Annette

Kradisch © Neues Museum,

Nuremburg

Nam June PaikRandom Access

1963/2000, strips of audiotape, open-reel audio deck, extended playback head, and speakers, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. Purchased with funds contributed by the International Director’s Council and Executive Committee Members: Ann Ames, Edythe Broad, Henry Buhl, Elaine Terner Cooper, Dimitris Daskalopoulos, Harry David, Gail May Engelberg, Ronnie Heyman, Dakis Joannou, Cindy Johnson, Barbara Lane, Linda Macklowe, Peter Norton, Willem Peppler, Denise Rich, Simonetta Seragnoli, David Teiger, Ginny Williams and Elliot K. Wolk, 2001, © Nam June Paik Estate. Photo by Erika Barahona Ede © The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York

Nam June PaikTV Clock

1963/1989, twenty-four fixed-image color television monitors mounted on twenty-four pedestals; black and white and color,

silent. Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Museum Purchase with funds

provided by the Grace Jones Richardson Trust, Lillian and Jon B. Lovelace, Leatrice and Eli Luria and the Luria Foundation, Zora and

Les Charles and the Cheeryble Foundation, Wendy and Elliot Friedman, and Lord and Lady Ridley-Tree,

© Nam June Paik Estate. Photo by Scott McClaine

Nam June PaikMagnet TV

1965, television set and magnet, black and

white, silent, Whitney Museum of American

Art, New York; purchase, with funds

from Dieter Rosenkranz,

© Nam June Paik Estate. Photo by Robert

E. Mates

Nam June PaikTV Crown 1

1965/1998-99, manipulated television set with two audio generators, two amplifiers, and heat regulator; color, silent, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. Purchased with funds contributed by the International Director’s Council and Executive Committee. Members: Ann Ames, Edythe Broad, Henry Buhl, Elaine Terner Cooper, Dimitris Daskalopoulos, Harry David, Gail May Engelberg, Ronnie Heyman, Dakis Joannou, Cindy Johnson, Barbara Lane, Linda Macklowe, Peter Norton, Willem Peppler, Denise Rich, Simonetta Seragnoli, David Teiger, Ginny Williams and Elliot K. Wolk, 2001, © Nam June Paik Estate. Photo © The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York

Nam June PaikTV Chair

1968, closed-circuit video installation with

television and chair; black and white, silent, Nam June Paik Estate,

© Nam June Paik Estate

Nam June Paik, Untitled

from the portfolio The New York Collection for

Stockholm, 1973, serigraph on

paper, Smithsonian

American Art Museum, Gift of

the Woodward Foundation

© Nam June Paik Estate

Nam June PaikTV Cello

1971, video tubes, television chassis,

Plexiglas boxes, electronics, wiring,

wood base, stool, fan, photograph,

Collection Walker Art Center, Minneapolis,

formerly the collection of Otto

Piene and Elizabeth Goldring,

Massachusetts, T.B. Walker Acquisition

Fund, 1992© Nam June Paik

Estate

Nam June Paik, TV Garden, 1974/2000, single- channel video installation with color television monitors and live plants; color, sound, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New

York. Purchased with funds contributed by the International Director’s Council and Executive Committee Members: Ann Ames, Edythe Broad, Henry Buhl, Elaine Terner Cooper, Dimitris Daskalopoulos,

Harry David, Gail May Engelberg, Ronnie Heyman, Dakis Joannou, Cindy Johnson, Barbara Lane, Linda Macklowe, Peter Norton, Willem Peppler, Denise Rich, Simonetta Seragnoli, David Teiger, Ginny Williams and Elliot K. Wolk, and through prior gift of the Bohen Foundation, 2001, © Nam

June Paik Estate. Photo by Ellen Labenski © The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York

Nam June PaikWhitney Buddha Complex: TV Buddha

1982, Buddha statuette, closed-circuit video, monitor and dirt; black and white, silent, Marieluise Hessel Collection, Hessel Museum of Art, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on- Hudson, New York, © Nam June Paik Estate. Photo ©1985 D. James Dee Smithsonian American Art Museum

Nam June PaikWhitney Buddha Complex: TV Rodin

1982, bronze sculpture with TV Watchman playing broadcast television; black and white, silent, Marieluise Hessel Collection, Hessel Museum of Art, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, © Nam June Paik Estate. Photo by Chris Kendall

Nam June PaikWhitney Buddha Complex: Stone Buddha/Burnt TV

1982, Buddha statuette and burned television monitor, Marieluise Hessel Collection, Hessel Museum of Art, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, © Nam June Paik Estate. Photo ©1985 D. James Dee

Nam June PaikMerce/Digital

1988 single- channel video sculpture with

vintage television cabinets and fifteen

monitors; color, silent, collection of Roselyne

Chroman Swig© Nam June Paik

Estate. Image courtesy Nam June Paik Estate

Nam June PaikMegatron/Matrix

1995, eight- channel video installation with custom electronics; color, sound, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase made possible by Mr. and Mrs. Barney A. Ebsworth, Nelson C. White, and the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment

Nam June PaikChinese Memory

2005, single- channel video installation with

21" television, television cabinet, and antenna, with acrylic paint and permanent oil-based

markers, stacked books, Chinese scroll and phonograph cover,

color, silent, Nam June Paik Estate, © Nam

June Paik Estate

Nam June PaikElectronic Superhighway: Continental U.S., Alaska, Hawaii

(detail), 1995, fifty- one-channel video installation (including one closed- circuit television feed), custom electronics, neon lighting, steel and wood; color, sound, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the artist, © Nam June Paik Estate

Nam June PaikOpus Paintings

1975, thirty-two paintings, oil on canvas, Nam June Paik Estate, © Nam June Paik Estate

Nam June PaikUntitled (Newspaper

Drawing)

1990s, oil stick on printed newsprint, Smithsonian American Art Museum,

Gift to the Nam June Paik Archive from the Nam

June Paik Estate, © Nam June Paik Estate

Nam June PaikUntitled (Newspaper

Drawing)

1990s, oil stick on printed newsprint, Smithsonian American Art Museum,

Gift to the Nam June Paik Archive from the Nam

June Paik Estate, © Nam June Paik Estate

Nam June PaikUntitled (Newspaper

Drawing)

1990s, oil stick on printed newsprint, Smithsonian American Art Museum,

Gift to the Nam June Paik Archive from the Nam

June Paik Estate, © Nam June Paik Estate

Nam June PaikUntitled (Newspaper

Drawing)

1990s, oil stick on printed newsprint, Smithsonian American Art Museum,

Gift to the Nam June Paik Archive from the Nam

June Paik Estate, © Nam June Paik Estate

Nam June PaikUntitled (Robot)

[PaikBot]

1992, single-channel video in robot-

shaped assemblage of televisions, radio-

and stereo-system parts, and metal

hardware, with additions in paint;

color, silent, Smithsonian

American Art Museum, Gift to the

Nam June Paik Archive from the

Nam June Paik Estate, © Nam June

Paik Estate

Objects from the Nam June Paik Archive, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift to the Nam June Paik Archive from the Nam June Paik

Objects from the Nam June Paik

Archive, Smithsonian

American Art Museum, Gift to

the Nam June Paik Archive from the

Nam June Paik

Objects from the Nam June Paik Archive, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift to the Nam June Paik Archive from the Nam June Paik

Objects from the Nam June Paik Archive, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift to the Nam June Paik Archive from the Nam June Paik

Objects from the Nam June Paik Archive, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift to the Nam June Paik Archive from the Nam June Paik

Objects from the Nam June Paik Archive, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift to the Nam June Paik Archive from the Nam June Paik

Selected objects from the Nam June Paik Archive on display in the 2012 exhibition Nam June Paik: Global Visionary.

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Nam June Paik sitting in TV

Chair, 1968/1976, at Nam June Paik Werke, 1946-

76: Musik, Fluxus, Video,

Kolnischer Kunstverein,

Cologne, 1976. Photo by Friedrich

Rosenstiel © Friedrich

Rosenstiel

Nam June Paik in his video-editing studio in his home on Mercer Street, New York, 1999. Photo by David Heald © The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York