What is Nam June Paik?
{{Infobox Korean name |img=Paik Nam June (cropped).jpg |caption= |hangul=백남준 |hanja=[[wikt:白|白]][[wikt:南|南]][[wikt:準|準]] |rr=Baek Nam-jun |mr=Paek Nam-jun }} '''Nam June Paik''' (July 20, 1932 – January 29, 2006) was a [[Korea]]n-born [[Americans|American]] [[artist]]. He is often thought to be the first [[video art]]ist.<ref>Noah Wardrip-Fruin and Nick Montfort, ''The New Media Reader'', MIT Press, 2003, p227. {{ISBN|0262232278}}</ref> In 1971, he made a [[cello]] out of three television sets and some cello strings. Then he got a famous cellist to play the cello.<ref>{{cite book|last=Cox|first=Michael|title=Awful Art|url=https://archive.org/details/awfulart0000coxm|year=1997|publisher=Scholastic Children's Books|isbn=0-590-19262-0}}</ref> Starting with his debut, he started the neo-dadaism movement. In 2006, he died of natural causes. == References == {{Reflist}} {{bio-stub}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Paik, Nam June}} [[Category:American artists]] [[Category:1932 births]] [[Category:2006 deaths]]