The video artist Nam June Paik 白南準 (Baek Namjun, 백남준) was born in Seoul in 1932. His family moved to Japan in 1950 because of the Korean War, where Paik studied Tōkyō University studied aesthetics and art history. After graduating, Paik went to Munich in 1956, where he met Karl-Heinz Stockhausen. From 1958 to 1963, he worked for the WDR radio orchestra in Cologne. He became a member of the avant-garde Fluxus movement. He lived in the USA from 1964. He married a Japanese woman and returned to Germany in 1977. Since then he moved between Germany, Japan, South Korea and the USA. He died in Miami in 2006.

The installation „Electronic Superhighway: Continental U.S., Alaska, Hawaii“ was created by Nam June Paik in 1995 and is located in the Smithsonian American Art Museum.

Obituary for Nam June Paik