Lume(Auto) by Chris Shen: NJPAC-FACT Artist Residency Exchange Program Result Exhibition Close

• Venue/ Nam June Paik Art Center 1F, Mezzanine
• Period/ 2018.01.30(Tue) ~ 2018.03.25(Sun)

Nam June Paik Art Center (NJPAC) and FACT(Foundation for Art and Creative Technology) have participated in the Artists’ Residency Programme for UK/Korea 2017-2018 with the theme ‘Creative Future’ to promote emerging artists based in the United Kingdom and South Korea.

《You Start It》 by Blast Theory Close

• Venue/ Nam June Paik Art Center
• Period/ 2017.11.23(Thu) ~ 2018.03.04(Sun)

Celebrating the fifth anniversary, the Prize has carried on the spirit of Nam June Paik by acknowledging artists who venture beyond the known horizon to discover the unknown through ceaseless experiments and innovative works. The prize winner, Blast Theory exploring socio-political aspects of technology, has captured the world’s attention through their works that have created new forms of performance and interactive art.

Special Exhibition Our Bright Future–Cybernetic Fantasy Close

• Venue/ Nam June Paik Art Center
• Period/ 2017.07.20(Thu) ~ 2017.11.05(Sun)

The exhibition features contemporary artists’ thoughts and reflections on the rapidly changing technological environment. Since the Great Exhibition in 1851 at Crystal Palace, London, the rosy future promised by the state-driven technological development has brought about today’s fourth industrial revolution led by the internet and digital information technology. However, the belief that technological advance will open a new world for human beings has, in return, produced the fear that the very technology will also take away jobs from humans and even their identity .

LOOP Festival 《Radical Video》 Close

• Venue/ Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya
• Period/ 2017.05.18(Thu) ~ 2017.06.18(Sun)

Radical Video represents the combined effort to create new artistic representations, for the artists, producers, and audiences. They personify the way to defy the political gravity by demonstrating new possibilities of embodied relationships between humans and technology. Nam June Paik once confessed that more and more he worked with TV, he thought of Neolith. Hence, our focus on Radical video-free and nonlinear art.

Nam June Paik Exhibition 《Extraordinary Phenomenon, Nam June Paik》 Close

• Venue/ Nam June Paik Art Center 1F
• Period/ 2017.05.02(Tue) ~ 2018.02.04(Sun)

Nam June Paik ruptured the authoritarianism of music and the auteurism of visual art, by establishing a new relationship with the audience.

Special Exhibition – Imaginary Asia Close

• Venue/ Nam June Paik Art Center, 2F
• Period/ 2017.03.09(Thu) ~ 2017.07.02(Sun)

Imaginary Asia interrogates newly emergent approaches in contemporary art that deal with history. Collaborating with artists whose visions reinterpret or come to terms with varying historical changes in Asia on personal levels, Nam June Paik Art Center proposes to take a close look at the ways of mapping out Asian histories. This exhibition is not about ‘History’, namely records of the visitors, but ‘histories’-multifaceted documentations produced by each one of us, through subjective perspectives and embedded within the tangible textures of our lives.