This book is an exhibition catalogue of <TV Commune> combined with an anthology of papers presented at the symposium <Gift of Nam June Paik 4. Television, de- inter- trans-> held in autumn in 2011. Television is evolving to become like a kind of organism in the current milieu of new media such as YouTube and iPod, which is not a mere communication medium any longer and is essential part of human existence and behaviour. The international exhibition and symposium looked into the ways Paik insightfully explored the changing relationships between television and our perception of the world. What characterizes his artistic experimental televisions is ‘to defamiliarize,’ ‘to interface’ and ‘to transcend.’ Through these three keywords, the exhibition is an art historical examination of Paik’s television art and his contemporary artists of historical significance, and today’s media artists who strive to broaden the horizons of art vis-a-vis TV. This book also contains the in-depth symposium papers written by leading scholars in art history, aesthetics, sociology and communications studies, which will become a platform where the full implications of television in art and society can be investigated from various angles.
- Foreword – Manu Park (Director, Nam June Paik Art Center)
- TV Commune – Chaeyoung Lee (Curator, Nam June Paik Art Center)
- Seongeun Kim (Curator, Nam June Paik Art Center) / Nam June Paik’s ‘televisual’ anthropology: to defamiliarize, to interface and to transcend
- David Joselit (Prof. of History of Art, Yale University) / Nam June Paik’s video ecologies
- Hyunjean Lee (Prof. of Media Art, Yonsei University) / Multiple levels of closed feedback loops in contemporary moving images: based on media artworks using the camera-screen interface
- Yvonne Spielmann (Prof. of New Media, University of the West of Scotland) / Mediatization and remediatization: electronic experiments by Nam June Paik and Dara Birnbaum
- Hyoungil Joo (Prof. of Media and Communication, Yeungnam University) / Television and video: from happening to self-reflection
- Dieter Daniels (Prof. of Art History & Media Theory, Hochschule fur Grafik und Buchkunst) / Touching television: participation media with Marshall Mcluhan, John Cage and Nam June Paik
- Sang Ho Kim (Prof. of Journalism and Mass Communication, Dague University) / Moon – the oldest TV, global village – humankind connected through TV
- Authors’ Biographies
(ISBN 978-89-97128-03-7, 224 pages)
Attribution (BY), Non-commercial (NC), No Derivative Works (ND)
