Video artist Nam June Paik dies at 74

AP Worldstream | January 30, 2006 | Copyright

AP Worldstream
01-30-2006
Dateline: MIAMI
Nam June Paik, the avant-garde composer who was credited with being the inventor of video art, has died. He was 74.

The Korean-born Paik died Sunday night of natural causes at his Miami apartment, according to his Web site.

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 Paik's nephew, Ken Paik Hakuta, in New York.

Paik played a pivotal role in using video as a form of artistic expression. A member of the Fluxus art movement, Paik combined the use of ...

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