In celebration of the 80th anniversary of the birth of Nam June Paik, the special exhibition ( 20 July 2012-20 January 2013) was gathering a spectrum of Paik and other contemporary artists who were directly or indirectly influenced by Paik’s innovation : Shinil Kim, Dan Graham, Lutz Dammbeck, Mary Bauermeister, Michael Snow, Valie Export, Bill Viola, Shigeko Kubota, Muntadas, Olfur Eliasson, Lee Bul, Catherine Ikam & Louis Fl. However, different from a conventional retrospective, the exhibition shed light on Paik’s thought as well as his art, with a thematic focus on “cybernetics.” Theory connecting various existing sciences, cybernetics was a great source of inspiration for Paik, who exploited boundary regions between and across diverse fields, such as art, technology and nature. This catalogue, therefore, can be a crucial documentation for understanding Paik’s philosophical background as well as cybernetic effect on art in general.

Beginning with the foreword of Wulf Herzogenrath, a specialist of media art, who organized several exhibitions with Paik, the catalogue reveals diverse aspects of Paik’s art, from the introduction which explains the origin of the mysterious exhibition title, to the following 7 chapters of sub themes, each of them were crystallized by the detailed work descriptions. Above all, this book is embracing not only cybernetic perspectives in art but also copious art historical information resulted from NJP Art Center’s accumulated research.

Foreword Wulf Herzogenrath
Preface Manu Park
Introduction Kyunghwa Ahn

1
Seongeun Kim Panoramic Flows in Pixel Flickers
One Candle
Apple Tree
Darwin
TV Fish
TV Garden
Fragments of an Archetype
Your Uncertain Shadow(Growing)

2
Yujean Rhee Broadband Communication and Artist
Marco Polo
The Rehabilitation of Genghis-Khan
Highway Hacker
Rheingold
Brandenburg Concerto No.6
Easy Rider
Moon is the Oldest TV
Electronic Moon No.2
Key to the Highway(Rosetta Stone)

3
Kyunghwa Ahn The Human Use of Machine: Paik’s and Robot as Video Sculptures
Robot K-456
Danton
Queen Seondeok
Descartes
Yule Gok
TV Buddha
Enlightenment Compressed
Hippocrates Robot
Schubert
Charlie Chaplin
Bob Hope
Crane
My Little Bird
Robot Ramp
Nam June Paik Working in Carl Solway
Gallery Studio

4
Sohyun Ahn Abstract Time and Space of Video Art
Allan ‘n’ Allen’s Complaint
Space Seeing – Space Hearing
Past Future Split Attention
WVLNT
Untitled(“Infinity” Wall)
Ancient of Days

5
Seongeun Kim Prospect of Otherness, Pendulum of Nostalgia
Robot/People
Rain Inside Heart(Snow)
Happy Hoppi
The NET: The Unabomber, LSD and the Internet
The File Room

6
Sooyoung Lee Nam June Paik’s TV Experiments
Experimental TV Series
Three Camera Participation
Paik-Abe Video Synthesizer

7
Sohyun Ahn White Noise: The Idea of Cybernetics Art
TV-Die reine Vernunft
Sonata 4
Invisible Masterpiece
Secret Signs
Red Window
Transitions
4’ 33’’
performed as part of “New Cinema Festival I
Performance
Nam June Paik’s Biography
Biography