Posts Tagged ‘Nam June Paik’
Susan Dowling: Memories of WGBH (1979-1993)
I remember the projects at the WBGH New TV Workshop as the most exciting. I felt I was part of ground-breaking efforts with video artists and choreographers.
Read MoreRuss Connor: A Last Hurrah for a Friend
Fred Barzyk: How shall I remember him? I guess with a smile on my face as his witty comments on art and artists swirled around me… followed by his gentle smile and soft laugh.
Read MoreThe Making of “The Lathe of Heaven”
Fred Barzyk: It is still amazing to me how many people of a certain age remember watching this TV movie. I mean it was 1979 when it aired!
Read MoreAudio: David Atwood on 30 years at WGBH-TV
David Atwood got hired at WGBH-TV in 1965, for 80 bucks a week. He worked his way up from hanging lights in the studio to directing thousands of hours of groundbreaking TV over a four decade career.
Read MoreOtto Piene, 85, New Television Workshop Video Artist
“The greatest service technology could do for art would be to enable the artist to reach a proliferating audience, perhaps through TV, or to create tools for some new monumental art that would bring art to as many men today as in the middle ages.” — Otto Piene
Read MoreSmithsonian celebrates Nam June Paik
BBC Video: The work of Nam June Paik, considered the father of video art, has been put on display at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington DC.
Read MoreHelp us catalog WGBH “firsts” in national public media
We’re looking for your recommendations, corrections, and confirmations of WGBH’s national innovations over the decades.
Read MoreTo PBS, With (Tough) Love
From Bill Moyers: Public television has faithfully provided an enormous national stage where non-fiction films can be seen by far more people than could ever buy tickets at the handful of movie houses willing to put documentaries up on their theater screens.
Read MoreA stranger in a strange land
From Fred Barzyk: Bill insisted I try to get into the scholarship program. You studied for your graduate degree at Boston University and worked three days a week at the Educational Television station. Free tuition and you got $600 to live a year in Boston!
Read MorePaik and the Video Synthesizer
From Fred Barzyk: I remember Nam June Paik telling me to stand back since TV sets sometime exploded when he did this. I backed off. The TV did not explode but gave forth a dazzling array of colors, buzzed and slowly died, never to live again.
Read MoreNam June Paik & WGBH New Television Workshop 1971
New York Exhibition, December, 1971
Read MoreFrom Flaming Pianos to “Video Wallpaper”
From the Boston Globe 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 [1/29/06] at his Miami apartment. He was 74. “He basically invented video art,” said George Fifield, curator…
Read MoreFred Barzyk Honored For “Personal Vision in Television”
From Don Hallock At first glance this man looks sane enough. In fact, his lifelong career has been skating the crazy edge of the barely possible, a madcap minister to the risky marriage of art and broadcast. And it’s won Fred Barzyk (shown here speaking at the 2000 Reunion) yet another round of honors. In…
Read MoreGod never meant for pictures to fly through the air
Rambling Reflections on Life by a 74-year-old TV director
Read MoreJust How Far Have We Come?
Television and radio, New Television Workshop, educational services, more From Don Hallock – 2000 Just how far have we come? How many programs, series, co-productions and other projects have borne the WGBH logo over the past 50 years? In that time, an enormous and varied community of richly talented human beings have transformed a modest…
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