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Nam June Paik exhibition recreates his prophetic video visions

By Simon Ings

27 November 2019

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Internet Dream, one of Paik’s signature video walls

© Estate of Nam June Paik/Andrew Dunkley ©Tate

Nam June Paik

Tate Modern

London Until 9 February 2020

THE legacy of Nam June Paik is impressive. He is the man who predicted the internet, YouTube, remote education courses and many other icons of our information age. He died in 2006, living long enough to see some of his ideas start to become the drivers of today.

He was an artist who spent much time engineering, dismantling, reusing and swapping out components. He often replaced old tech with better tech, delivering what he could…

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