To remember and celebrate Nam June Paik's life and genius, please go to a museum to see an artwork of his.

*Please take note of our new mailing address:

Nam June Paik Studios

2995 Woodside Rd, #400

Woodside, CA 94062
Nam June Paik passed away at his Miami home at 7:00pm EST on Sunday, January 29th, 2006.




ASIA SOCIETY, New York: Projected Realities: Video Art from East Asia, dedicated to the memory of Nam June Paik. Through August 6, 2006.
WNET CHANNEL 13, NEW YORK
NEW YORK, NY
Nam June Paik: Edited for Television
June/July
KUNSTHAUS ZURICH
ZURICH, SWITZERLAND
Nam June Paik Videos at The Expanded Eye
June 16-Sept 3
www.kunsthaus.ch

Tate Gallery, London UK
Magnetic Memory: A Day-Long Video Tribute to Nam June Paik
Saturday 10 June 2006, 10.00

Nam June Paik
Merce by Merce by Paik 1973
In Collaboration with Charles Atlas, Merce Cunningham and Shigeko Kubota
Courtesy Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York
Programme duration 12 hrs

This screening is organised by Electronic Arts Intermix, New York

Tate Modern Starr Auditorium
£10 (£8 concessions), booking recommended
RIO DE JANIERO INSTITUTE OF TELEVISION STUDIES
RIO DE JANIERO, BRASIL
Nam June Paik Video Tribute
June
www.ietv.org.br
NAM JUNE PAIK MEMORIAL IN LOS ANGELES
JUNE 1, 7:30 PM
Bing Theater
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Open to the public
213-381-1328
caroleann@artistpensiontrust.org
Organized by the LA Film Forum, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), and the Korean Cultural Center in Los Angeles.
EWHA WOMANS UNIVERSITY
Seoul, Korea
EMAP 2006 (Ewha Media Art Presentation)
Post Video Garden: A tribute to a true pioneer, Nam June Paik
May 22- 24, rain dates: May 24- 26
Organized by the Dept of Art and Design
Director: Prof. Cho Duck Hyun
cho-pf@hanmail.net
Curater: Inhee Iris Moon
inheemoon@hotmail.com
CAIXAFORUM
BARCELONA, SPAIN
Nam June Paik Video Tribute
May 19 & 28
arteBA2006
BUENO AIRES, ARGENTINA
Nam June Paik Video Tribute
May 19-24
Nina Colosi, Director/curator
www.arteba.org

LOOP VIDEO FESTIVAL
Nam June Paik Tribute
BARCELONA, SPAIN
Organized by CASA ASIA
at Miscelanea
May 14-21
cmagnesi@casaasia.es
www.casaasia.es
OBSERVATORI FESTIVAL
VALENCIA, SPAIN
Nam June Paik Video Tribute
May 5-7
THE IMAGE FORUM, JAPAN
Nam June Paik Video Tribute
Tokyo: May 2 & 8
Kyoto: May 18
Fukuoka: June 8
Yokohama: July 8

www.imageforum.co.jp
sawa@imageforum.co.jp
81-3-5766-0116

Tribeca Film Festival

A Tribute to Nam June Paik
U.S.A., 120 min

A collection of work by Korea-born, New York-based video art pioneer Nam June Paik, who died in January. Presented in collaboration with the Nam June Paik Studio, Electronic Arts Intermix, and John Hanhardt, Senior Curator of the Film and Media Arts department at the Guggenheim Museum.

Thu, May 4 / 9:15 pm
Pace U Schimmel Center

Sun, May 7 / 1:30 pm
AMC Loews 34th Street 11

MoMA VIDEO TRIBUTE TO NAM JUNE PAIK.
NAM JUNE PAIK - IN MEMORIAM

Organized by Barbara London, Associate Curator; Sally Berger, Assistant Curator; and Mahalo Uchida, Intern, Department of Film and Media, in collaboration with
Electronics Arts intermix(EAI).

MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, NEW YORK
11 West 53 St
New York, NY 10019
212-708-9400
www.moma.org

Program 1
May 1, 8:00 PM; May 17, 8:00 PM
Program 2
May 5, 8:30 PM; May 18, 8:00 PM
Program 3
May 11, 8:00 PM; May 21, 4:30 PM
Program 4
May 13, 4:30 PM; May 22, 8:00 PM

Paik's first show at MoMA, in 1968, was Machine as Seen at the End of the Mechanical Age. Since then, many exhibitions have featured his classic videotapes and video sculptures. Paik also contributed to the foundation of MOMA's media collection. Barbara London.
April 26 , Guggenheim Museum Nam June Paik Celebration. 6:30-8:00 pm, Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA
Solomon R. Guggenehim Museum
1071 Fifth Avenue (at 89th St)
New York, NY
212-423-3500
March 25, Bremen Memorial to Nam June Paik, Kunsthalle Bremen, 3 pm, GERMANY.
Kunsthalle Bremen
Am Wall 207
D-28195 Bremen
T 0421/329080
F 0421/32908-47
e-mail: office@kunsthalle-bremen.de
March 18 49th Day People's Memorial and Happening, 5:30 pm, SEOUL, KOREA. Event Coordinator: Dorothy Nam: dotn@mac.com, phone: 010-6873-7783 Seoul
February 26-March 8, Tokyo Requiem for Nam June Paik, Museum of Contemporary Art, JAPAN

February 25, New York, Elecronics Arts Intermix (EAI) Tribute to Nam June Paik, 10 am-10 pm, USA
EAI (Electronic Arts Intermix)
535 W 22nd St, 5th floor
NY, New York 10011
(212) 337-0680

February 3, New York Memorial Service

*Other events are in the planning phase, and will be posted as they are finalized. Events subject to change.

Cards and letters of condolence should be sent to:

Nam June Paik/Nam June Paik Studios
802 6th Ave
Suite #59
New York, NY 10001
USA

PRESS INQUIRIES should be made to:

Ken Hakuta
202-669-7477 or kensoho@yahoo.com

For Korean press inquiries please contact:

Dorothy Nam
dotn@mac.com
phone: 010-6873-7783 Seoul


NAM JUNE PAIK DEATH MASK
Sculpted by Yongjin Hah

This bronze Death Mask was sculpted and cast in New York around 1994 by Yongjin Hah, a friend and scuptor living in New York, who collaborated on several works with Nam June Paik, including the outdoor installation at the Storm King Art Center, New York and at the Gallerie de Paris. Paik sat in several times to make a proper mold. The mask portrays Nam June Paik in a most life like way.

portrays Nam June Paik in alife like way.

Nam June Paik's journey as an artist has been truly global, and his impact on the art of video and television has been profound.To foreground the creative process that is distinctive to Paik's artwork, it is necessary to sort through his mercurial movements, from Asia through Europe to the United States, and examine his shifting interests and the ways that individual artworks changed accordingly. It is my argument that Paik's prolific and complex career can be read as a process grounded in his early interests in composition and performance. These would strongly shape his ideas for mediabased art at a time when the electronic moving image and media technologies were increasingly present in our daily lives. In turn, Paik's work would have a profound and sustained impact on the media culture of the late twentieth century; his remarkable career witnessed and influenced the redefinition of broadcast television and transformation of video into an artist's medium.

 

 

John Hanhardt
Guggenheim Museum of Art
Senior Curator of Film and Media Arts