[ARENA] Nam June Paik Archive Goes to the Smithsonian

Andreas Broeckmann ab mikro.in-berlin.de
Segunda-Feira, 4 de Maio de 2009 - 09:07:52 WEST


from:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/01/arts/design/01voge.html?_r=3


Nam June Paik Archive Goes to the Smithsonian

Clunky black-and-white television sets and 1960s record players;  
early video projectors and decades-old Polaroid cameras - things that  
were long ago relegated to the electronic graveyard - are precious  
and priceless in the world created by the artist Nam June Paik  
(1932-2006).

Mr. Paik, who pioneered video art, spent more than five decades  
creating an idiosyncratic variety of works, including robots, musical  
compositions, video sculptures and installations. Coining the phrase  
the "electronic superhighway" in 1974, he saw the artistic  
possibilities of technology long before most people.

So receiving Mr. Paik's coveted archives as a gift from the artist's  
estate is the art world equivalent of winning the lottery. The estate  
asked a group of museums for proposals on how each would use the  
archive. Out of a group that included the Museum of Modern Art, the  
J. Paul Getty Museum, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and the  
Whitney Museum of American Art, it chose the Smithsonian American Art  
Museum.





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