Index
Contents
Acknowledgments xiii
Editors' Note on Paik's Previously Unpublished Work xvii
THE TEXTUAL WORLDS OF NAM JUNE PAIK: THE TIME OF WRITING AND READING 1
by John G. Hanhardt
PART 1: MUSIC AND THE AVANT-GARDE: PERFORMING FLUXUS 21
a: Speculative Writings
Formal Development of the Pre-classical Symphony (1957) 22
Postmusic (1963) 24 The Age of Slow-motion (1964) 26
Robot Opera Program (1964) 27
Untitled/Most of my So-Said "Action Music" Pieces (1967) 29
Charlotte Moorman: Chance and Necessity (c. 1992) 29
TV Bra for Living Sculpture (1969) 33
My Jubilee ist Unverhemmet (1977) 33
George Maciunas And Fluxus + Wiesbaden 62
(1978) 34 On Cagean interpretation Of Cage 34
B.C./A.D. John Cage (1993) 35
b: Scores
Seven Fluxus Scores (all c. 1962) 38
Omnibus-Music No. 1 (1961) 39
Half-Time (1962) 40
Symphonie No. 5 (c. 1965) 41
Etude platonique No. 3 63
Suite for transistor radio (1963) 63
Sinfonie for 20 Rooms (1961) 65
To The "Symphony For 20
Rooms" (c. 1963) 66
Bagatelles americaine (1962) 67
Metro-Music and Bagatelles Americaine (1962) 69
Sonatine foe Radio (1963) 70
Moving Theater No. 2 (1963) 71
My Symphonies (1973) 72
"THIS SCRIPT IS NOT FINAL, AND IS SUBJECT TO CHANGES": NAM JUNE PAIK BETWEEN
PAGE AND SCREEN 73
by Gregory Zinman
PART 2: TRANSFORMING VIDEO AND TELEVISION: MEDIA ART PRACTICES 87
a: Speculative Writings
Exposition of Music (1963) 89
About the Exposition of the music (1963) 91
Electronic TV & Color TV Experiment (1964) 92
Afterlude to the Exposition of Experimental Television (1963) 94
Electronic Video Recorder (1965) 97
Projects for Electronic Television (1965) 98
Untitled/"Cybernated art is very important..." (1965) 99
Sonata quasi una fantasia for Billie Kluver (c. 1965) 100
Utopian Laser-TV Station (1966)
115 Computer Programming for Visual Arts and Electronic Opera (1967)
116 Flykingen Bulletin (1967) 117
World First Video-Tape Monthly Magazine (1967) 122
Norbert Wiener and Marshall McLuhan (1967) 123
Comparative Aesthetics—cybernetics of arts (1967)
126 Machine Show essay (1968) 127
Expanded Education For The Paper-less Society (1968) 130
Versatile Color TV Synthesizer (1969) 142
Global Groove and Video Common Market (1970) 142
Simulation of Human Eyes by 4-Channel Stereo Video Taping (1970) 144
Video Synthesizer Plus (1970) 145
Sonsbeek catalogue essay (1971) 146
Binghamton Letter (1972) 147
Communication-Art (1972) 152
Media Planning For The Post Industrial Input-time and Output-time (1976) 166
Interfacing two different media 167
Feedback Americana 170 Why is Television Dumb? (1976) 172
Random Access Information (1980) Video déjà vu? (1982) 177
Art & Satellite (1984) 179
Rendez-vous Celeste (1984/1986/1988) 182
Context Is Content...Content Is Context (1985) 185
A Satellite—The light of the future Asatte—literally, the day
after tomorrow (1987) 187
Nostalgia Is The Extended Feedback ('30-'60-'90) (1992) 192
For a Deer (1992) 194 Mediatique Memory (1992) 196
b: Scripts and Plans
Scenario (1962-1963) 198
Electronic Opera (1967) 201
A Day Project (1972-1973) 204
Selling of New York 207 Suite 212 211
Don't Lick Stamps in China 216
Media Shuttle: New York-Moscow/You Cannot Lick Stamps in China (1978)
216
Sattelite Piano Duette Beuys-Paik (1981) 217
Notes by Nam June Paik: Brandenburg Concerto No. 7 (1981) 219
First script for Good Morning, Mr. Orwell (1983) 222
Proposal for Bye Bye Kipling (1986) 230
Chip Olympics [Wrap Around the World] (c. 1988) 235
PART 3: CULTURE AND POLITICS: LOCAL AND GLOBAL 241
Untitled/"Why philosophy is (has) not changed, as much as art" 243
Untitled/"After the necessary-nonsence of moon race..." 244
The First Oil War (1941-45) (first draft) (1979) 246
How to Make Oil Obsolete 251
Untitled/"As Kandinsky and Mondrian etc discovered abstract SPACE..."
254
Proposal two/Walt Disney a radical interpretation/Some other proposals (1971) 255
I Lived only one year in Munich (1972) 258
Beuys weeds—Beuys creeds (1984) 260
From Horse to Christo (1981) 263
DNA is not racism (1988) 266
Sohm decided to collect ONLY information on art and not ART itself
(1991) 270
Fluxus Picasso (c. 1992) 272
Venice—Turtleship—a Trial Of Mr. Picasso... (1993) 274
Untitled (Politics and Comics) (c. 1969) 278
Avant Garde on Trial (c. 1967) 323
The Confession of "topless" (?) Cellist 327
Aesthetics of Bibim-bab [a rice hash]—The Art of Post Industry Era
(1995) 329
PART 4: ANNOTATIONS TO A LIFE: COMMENTARIES AND LETTERS 333
a: Commentaries
My Projects in 1966-67 334
Mary Bauermeister or "I accept the universe" (B. Fuller) 335
George Maciunas (1990) 337
Spirit-Media-Kut (1991) 340
2x Mini Giants (1991) 342
Two Rails Make One Single Track (1996) 343
b: Letters
Letter to Wolfgang Steinecke (1959) 346
Letter to John Cage, "excuse me" (1961) 348
Letter to Wolf Vostell (1965) 350
Letter to Howard Klein (1967) 350
Letter to Norman Lloyd (1967) 352
Letter to Ralph Burgard (1967) 355
Letter to Ralph Burgard (1967) 355
Postcard to John Cage (1968) 357
Letter to John Cage 358
Letter to John Cage 359
Letter to David C. Stewart (1968) 360
Letter to Ralph Burgard (1969) 362
Letter to Norman Lloyd and Howard Klein (1971) 364
Letter to Mike Rice (1971) 365
Letter to Porter McCray (1971) 367
Letter to the TV Lab (1973) 369
Letter to TV Lab, Quarterly Report (1973) 370
Letter to John J. O'Connor (c. 1976) 372
Letter to John J. O'Connor (1978) 373
Letter to Howard Klein: re Peace Correspondent (1979) 374
Letter to John J. O'Connor (c. 1986) 379
Letter to John J. O'Connor (1988) 380
Letter to John J. O'Connor (1988) 382
NAM JUNE PAIK'S CHINESE MEMORIES 383
by Edith Decker-Phillips
PART 5: CHINA TEXTS: "SCRUTABLE CHINESE" 395
Horse 1 395
Art (?) 396
A man and his wife went to a temple to pray for fortune. 396
Horse 2 396
Dream 1 397
Ecology of Forgetting 398
Here is a survival kit. 399
Death 399
Teacher 399
Life 399
Friends and Rivals 400
"Half the Peach" 404
Nail-Salon-Sting 404
How to edit the videotape. 404
Smart Man 405
A General 405
Communication Theory No. 1 406
Solo and Orchestra 406
Hostage Drama 407
Painted Dragon, Pointed Eyes 407
Arts / Music 410
Music 2 411
Study 412
Law and Order 415
2 million Dollar trees 416
General 417
Case Studies and Abstraction 417
The Palm of Duchamp 418
The Role of Blacks 419
Names Cited in Nam June Paik's Writings 423
Index 431
