Video artist Paik dies
2006-01-30 14:18
Seoul - Paik Nam-june, known as the inventor of video art, has died, according to his website. He was 74.
The Korean-born artist died on Sunday night of natural causes at his Miami apartment, a statement on his website said.
Song Tae-ho, head of a South Korean cultural foundation working on a project to build a museum for the artist, said he learned of Paik's death from his nephew, Ken Paik Hakuta, in New York.
Paik completed degrees in music and aesthetics in Japan before pursuing graduate work in philosophy. Some of his experiments were in radio and television, and he is thought to have coined the terms "information superhighway" and "the future is now".
He made his debut in the art world in 1963 with a solo art exhibition titled "Exposition of Music-Electronic Television".
A stroke in 1996 left him partially paralysed.
Funeral services will be held this week in New York City, Hakuta told South Korea's Yonhap news agency.
- AP