"Nam June Paik: Becoming Robot"

Video is a common medium today, but it was far-out and new in the mid-1960s when Nam June Paik (1932–2006) arrived in New York and quickly made the acquaintance of legendary names such as John Cage, Merce Cunningham and Yoko Ono. He just as quickly established himself as the father of video art, though he certainly wasn't the first artist to tinker with the technology. But he understood the cultural impact of television and found a metaphor for its pervasiveness in his use of multiple monitors and screens and mesmerizing images. This look back at his seminal work is the first of its kind in New York in a decade.