[백남준] We are in open circuits Writing by N. J. Paik

<We are in open circuits Writing by Nam June Paik 출판사: MIT Press 22cm*29cm 판형이 국배판(A4) 용지크기 총 페이지: 445(page)> Essays, project plans, and correspondence from across Nam Jun Paik's career, much of it previously out of print or unpublished. 가격: 50달러 // 백남준(1932~2006)은 현대미술사에서 중요한 인물이다. 틀림없이 역사상 가장 중요한 비디오 아티스트이자 가장 영향력 있고 다작을 한 사람 중 백남준은 전자 동영상을 예술가의 매체로 변화시킨 전설적인 혁신가였다. 그는 친구들과 연락하고, 공연 악보를 작성하고, 텔레비전 프로젝트를 위한 제작 노트를 작성하고, 비디오 설치 계획 초안을 작성하고, 에세이와 기사를 쓰는 등 끊임없이 글을 썼다. 새로운 예술적 도구를 선구적으로 개발하고 비디오와 TV 분야에서 선구적인 작업을 한 것으로 알려진 백남준은 종종 자신의 생각을 날카롭게 하고 아이디어를 연마하기 위해 글을 썼다. // Nam June Paik (1932–2006) is a pivotal figure in the history of modern art. Arguably the most important video artist of all time, and certainly among the most influential and prolific, Paik was a legendary innovator who transformed the electronic moving image into an artist's medium. He wrote incessantly—corresponding with friends, composing performance scores, making production notes for television projects, drafting plans for video installations, writing essays and articles. Celebrated for his visionary development of new artistic tools and for his pioneering work in video and television, Paik often wrote to sharpen his thinking and hone his ideas. He used the typewriter to fashion sentences that broke apart and reassembled themselves as he wrote, producing both poetic texts and aesthetic objects on the page. This first extensive collection of Paik's writings includes many previously unpublished and out-of-print texts.

Drawing on materials from the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Nam June Paik Archive and from a range of international publications, We Are in Open Circuits offers important but long-unavailable essays, including “Global Groove and Video Common Market”; unpublished writings on such topics as his creative partnership with the cellist Charlotte Moorman and the role of public television; a substantial part of his compilation “Scrutable Chinese”; and detailed plans for some of his groundbreaking broadcast works, including the trio Good Morning, Mr. Orwell (1984), Bye Bye Kipling (1986), and Wrap Around the World (1988). It also includes nearly 150 pages that reproduce Paik's original typed and handwritten pages, letting readers see his writing in various stages of inspiration and execution.