Multimedia Designer Nam June Paik

Nam June Paik

Living place: South Korean

Birthday: 20-7-1932 (92 years old)

Global rank: #44836

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Who is Multimedia Designer Nam June Paik?
Korean-American recording multimedia artist who is the founder of video art. He was one of the first to use the "electronic superhighway" when referring to telecommunications
his famous work, "Electronic superhighway: Continental America, Alaska, Hawaii 1995-1996" . Has been put on exhibition at the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
 
 

Young / Before famous

He trained as a classical pianist in his youth and studied music at the University of Tokyo and Germany's University of Munich. He became acquainted with the concept artists Joseph Beuys and Wolf Vostell while in Germany, and they had an incredible impact on his electronic artistic pursuits.

Family life info

He grew up with two brothers and two sisters, and he and his family fled to South Korea during the Korean War. He married video artist Shigeko Kubota in 1965.

Close relationship

Who is Boy (girl) friend/ wife (husband)/ darling Multimedia Designer Nam June Paik?
His work has been influenced by the musical works of John Cage and Karlheinz Stockhausen.

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When was Multimedia Designer Nam June Paik born?
Nam June Paik birthday 20-7-1932 (at the age of 92).
Where is Multimedia Designer Nam June Paik's birth place, what is Zodiac/Chinese Zodiac?
Nam June Paik was born in South Korean. is a Multimedia Designer, whose Zodiac is Cancer, and who Chinese Zodiac is The Monkey. Nam June Paik's global rank is 44836 and whose rank is 6 in list of famous Multimedia Designer.
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Events in 1932 and 20-7

Events in the world in the birth year of Nam June Paik

  • Nazis lead in German elections with 230 Reichstag seats.
  • Famine is widespread in U.S.S.R.

Birthday Nam June Paik (20-7) in history

  • Day 20-7 year 1810: Colombia declared its independence from Spanish domination.
  • Day 20-7 year 1881: Fugitive Sioux Indian leader Sitting Bull surrendered to federal troops.
  • Day 20-7 year 1951: King Abdullah I of Jordan was assassinated.
  • Day 20-7 year 1960: Sirima Bandaranaike of Sri Lanka (then Ceylon) became the world's first woman prime minister.
  • Day 20-7 year 1969: Astronaut Neil A. Armstrong was the first man to walk on the Moon.
  • Day 20-7 year 1985: Treasure hunters found the Spanish galleon Nuestra Senora de Atocha, which sank off the coast of Key West, Fla., in 1622 during a hurricane. The ship contained over $400 million in coins and silver ingots.
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