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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