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Nam June Paik: Moon is the Oldest TV (2023)

Directed by Amanda Kim

Monday, July 3, 2023 12 a.m. Eastern / 9 p.m. Pacific

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In this Talk

“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.

Amanda Kim

A photo of Amanda Kim on The Brooklyn Rail's New Social Environment
Amanda Kim is a Tokyo-raised, Korean American director and producer. After graduating from Brown University with a degree in Comparative Literature, she worked many odd jobs in music, fashion, and design, before landing a job at Vice Media. A former creative director at Vice Media, she led U.S. video direction for i-D, Creators, and Garage magazine. Kim also worked on Viceland, Vice’s TV channel, as a creative producer in an experimental incubator where she directed a nimble production crew to test out pilots and innovative content formats.

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