Artist Nam June Paik, Avant-Garde Champion ; Credited with Coining Phrase 'the Future Is Now'

The Record, Bergen County, NJ › February 01, 2006

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MIAMI -- Nam June Paik, the avant-garde artist credited with inventing video art in the 1960s by combining multiple TV screens with sculpture, music and live performers, has died. He was 74.

The Korean-born Mr. Paik, who also coined the term "Electronic Super Highway" years before the information superhighway was invented, died Sunday night of natural causes at his Miami apartment, according to his Web site.

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Artist Nam June Paik, Avant-Garde Champion ; Credited with Coining Phrase 'the Future Is Now'

Song Tae-ho, head of a South Korean cultural foundation working on a project to build a museum for the artist, said he learned of Mr...

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