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http://dx.doi.org/10.9717/kmms.2020.23.4.603

A Study on the Audiovisual Art of Nam June Paik with Focus on Musical Synesthesia  

Yoon, Ji Won (Dept. of Music Production, Artech College, Keimyung University)
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Journal of Korea Multimedia Society / v.23, no.4, 2020 , pp. 603-614 More about this Journal
Abstract
Analyzing various works of Nam June Paik who pioneered the world of video art, we can find a number of audiovisual art pieces - in a broad sense - with the characteristics of "intermedia" that are not clearly identified as one genre. Especially, his career as a musician becomes an important clue for us to discuss the unique originality found in Paik's works. Nevertheless, examples of research that specifically explore how Paik's musicality is reflected in his artistry and could be deeply understood is still rare. This article examines Paik's audiovisual art world, and reviews how his musicality is expressed through the characteristics of media and form, as well as contributed to the ultimate technical and aesthetic realizations of his pieces from the perspective of musical synesthesia. The fact that Paik expanded the concept of music through technology, and fused different media to visualize music, is an important achievement in the context of aesthetic, synesthetic music in the field of audiovisual art.
Keywords
Nam June Paik; Audiovisual Art; Synesthesia; Musical Synesthesia; Multimodality; Cross-modality;
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