A Conversation on Nam June Paik with Rudolf Frieling and Constance Lewallen Mon, Jul 12 at 1 p.m. ET / 10 a.m. PT

Today, Monday, July 12, 1pm EST: Curator Rudolf Frieling joins Brooklyn Rail Editor-at-Large Constance Lewallen in a conversation on Nam June Paik, one of the founders of video art and video sculpture. You can register for this talk here.

Nam June Paik is one of the first truly global and transnational artists, Paik foresaw the importance of mass media and new technologies, coining the phrase ‘electronic superhighway’ in 1974 to predict the future of communication in an internet age. The exhibition held in SF Moma in 2021 — the artist’s first-ever West Coast retrospective — celebrated Paik’s collaborative approach that transcended genres and traditions, while also highlighting the artist’s innovative, playful, and profoundly radical work. You can view it here:

https://www.sfmoma.org/read/nam-june-paik-exhibition-guide-curator-picks