Nam June Paik
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newportFILM and the RISD Museum present a screening of Nam June Paik: Moon is the Oldest TV, which tells the remarkable story of Nam June Paik, a trailblazing artist considered the father of video art, who both saw the present and predicted the future with astonishing clairvoyance.
Director Amanda Kim will introduce the film virtually and RISD Film/Animation/Video Faculty Hannah Subotnick will also offer opening remarks on Paik.
“The George Washington of Video Art” … “Cultural Terrorist” … “Citizen Zero of the Electronic Superhighway” … But who really was Nam June Paik, pillar of the American avant-garde in the 20th century and arguably the most famous Korean artist in modern history? Director Amanda Kim tells, for the first time, the story of Paik’s meteoric rise in the New York art scene and his Nostradamus-like visions of a future in which “everybody will have his own TV channel.” Thanks to social media, Paik’s future is now our present, and Nam June Paik: Moon is the Oldest TV shows us how we got here.
This film premiered at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival.
Audience Advisory: This film contains strobe effects and may potentially trigger seizures. Viewer discretion is advised.
Free. Registration requested.