Sun 4/2 @ 2PM
If you’ve even seen an art installation that incorporates video images — and if you go to galleries and museums, you’ve undoubtedly seen many — you’re looking at the influence of Korean-American artist Nam June Paik (1932-2006). Originally a classical pianist, a background in music history and an interest in modern avant-garde composers, he began shooting video while living in Japan in the early 1960s and fell in with the Fluxus movement before moving to the U.S. in 1964. In New York he began to bring all his interests together to rate multi-disciplinary works heavily based on technology.
First-time director Amanda Kim takes a look at this astonishing life and influential career in a new film called Moon Is the Oldest TV. It will screen at the Cleveland Museum of Art Cinematheque this Sunday. Go here for tickets.