{"390481":{"#nid":"390481","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"New Works by Nam June Paik Are Discovered at the Smithsonian American Art Museum","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EProfessor Gregory Zinman was quoted in an article in Smithsonian Magazine on the confluence of art and engineering, particilarly in the context of \u0022Watch This! Revelations in Media Art,\u0022 an \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/americanart.si.edu\/exhibitions\/archive\/2015\/watch_this_2015\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Eexhibition\u003C\/a\u003E that opens on April 24.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe exhibition features artifacts from the Nam June Paik archive aquired in 2009. Paik is a Korean-born composer, performance artist, painter, pianist, writer, and the acknowledged grandfather of video art. In the 1960s, Bell Lab\u0027s senior management briefly opened the labs to a few artists, including Paik, inviting them to use the computer facilities.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022The engineers turned to artists to see if the artists would understand the technology in new ways that the engineers could learn from,\u201d Zinman explained. \u201cTo me, that moment, that confluence of art and engineering, was the genesis of the contemporary media-scape.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOn Paik utilizing words and letters fromt eh English alphabet to compose visual works of art:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI think it has to do with opposites, Paik\u2019s play on words,\u201d Zinman adds. \u201cMy guess is that he found that amusing. It also could be that short terms could be plotted more easily.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOn Paik\u0027s frustration with technology found in the labs:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022He was frustrated because it was just too slow and not intuitive enough,\u201d Zinman says. \u201cPaik moved very fast. He once said his fingers worked faster than any computer. He thought the computer would revolutionize media\u2014and he was right\u2014but he didn\u2019t like it.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/smithsonian-institution\/new-works-nam-june-paik-discovered-smithsonian-american-art-museum-180954571\/?no-ist\u0022\u003EContinue to full article...\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EGregory Zinman is an assistant professor in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication. His research interests include experimental film and media,\u0026nbsp;artists\u2019 film and video, digital aesthetics, the moving image online, and early computer films.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27889","created_gmt":"2015-03-25 10:40:32","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 02:24:00","author":"Beth Godfrey","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Pranav Kulkarni","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"http:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/smithsonian-institution\/new-works-nam-june-paik-discovered-smithsonian-american-art-museum-180954571\/?no-ist","dateline":{"date":"2015-03-23T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2015-03-23T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"309821":{"id":"309821","type":"image","title":"Gregory Zinman","body":null,"created":"1449244726","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 15:58:46","changed":"1475895020","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:50:20","alt":"Gregory Zinman","file":{"fid":"199832","name":"gregoryzinman200x300.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/gregoryzinman200x300_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/gregoryzinman200x300_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":73177,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/gregoryzinman200x300_0.jpg?itok=2Xdq4b4P"}},"390471":{"id":"390471","type":"image","title":"Etude 1, a piece by Nam June Paik","body":null,"created":"1449246312","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 16:25:12","changed":"1475894403","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:40:03","alt":"Etude 1, a piece by Nam June Paik","file":{"fid":"75523","name":"01_paik_etude1web.jpg__800x600_q85_crop_subject_location-408387.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/01_paik_etude1web.jpg__800x600_q85_crop_subject_location-408387.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/01_paik_etude1web.jpg__800x600_q85_crop_subject_location-408387.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":113679,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/01_paik_etude1web.jpg__800x600_q85_crop_subject_location-408387.jpg?itok=11HyVJ2T"}}},"media_ids":["309821","390471"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"},{"id":"1283","name":"School of Literature, Media, and Communication"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"125","name":"art"},{"id":"516","name":"engineering"},{"id":"104081","name":"press"},{"id":"168873","name":"Smithsonian"},{"id":"122391","name":"Zinman"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}