NAM JUNE PAIK, 74; ARTIST EXPLORED JUNCTURE OF TECHNOLOGY, IMAGINATION

The Boston Globe | January 31, 2006| | Copyright

Nam June Paik, a leading figure in the artistic avant-garde for more than four decades, whose pioneering use of electronic imagery earned him the unofficial title "the George Washington of video art," died Sunday at his Miami apartment. He was 74.

Mr. Paik died of natural causes, according to his website, www.paikstudios.com. He had been left partially paralyzed by a stroke in 1996.

"He basically invented video art," said George Fifield, curator of new media at the DeCordova Museum, in a telephone interview yesterday. "He did installation. He did abstract video. He just did everything. He was ...

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