Video Art Featurette plus Bonus Art Video, #1 Video Artist and DVD bonuses.... by Skip Blumberg & 63 collaborators
The Video Art Featurette Nam June Paik: Lessons from the Video Master (47:15), recorded at the famed artist's memorial service, contains 46 short visually-stylized often-humorous insightful interviews with friends, colleagues, collaborators and prot?g?s; including artists Yoko Ono, Merce Cunningham, Carolee Schneeman, Davidson Gigliotti (Videofreex), Beryl Korot, Liz Phillips, Bill Viola, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Blondell Cummings, Kit Fitzgerald, and, of course, Shigeko Kubota; curators John Hanhardt (Guggenheim Museum), Wulf Herzogenrath (Kunsthalle Bremen), Barbara London and Sally Berger (MoMA); as well as NJP?s nephew Ken Paik Hakuta. And many more.

"A mistake is not a mistake." "The only way to win a race is to run alone." "If you want to do it, you can do it."
"If it's good you can use it more than once; if it's not good don't even use it once." ~ Nam June Paik

NYC's art community remembers the fun-loving and wise #1 video artist.

Bonus Art Video (36:50), contains 17 additional interviews including video artists Mary Lucier, Dara Birnbaum, David Cort (Videofreex), Ralph Hocking (Experimental TV Center), Ira Schneider (Raindance/Radical Software), the first video art curator David Ross, and independent film pioneer Jonas Mekas, as well as a video-within-a-video of Yoko Ono's special performance for NJP at the Guggenheim Museum.

#1 Video Artist is a G-rated 9-minute edit of the Featurette especially edited for middle and high school students.

Nam June Paik's work broke the rules of art, television, graphics, and, because TV can use all possible media and information, practically everything else, too.

Fast-moving and entertaining for all audiences, the new DVD is also an excellent learning tool and research source for media artists, art historians and students as well as an encyclopedia of special effects, filters, colorizing, transitions, handheld camcorder, single-person-crew, interviewing and titling techniques.

The DVD is produced by NJP's friend and colleague, Skip Blumberg, himself one of the first generation of video artists and an award-winning documentary videomaker. His videos are distributed by EAI.org, VDB.org and the Museum of Modern Art.

Made possible with public funds from the NYS Council on the Arts, a State Agency, and support from the Experimental TV Center.

INITIAL RELEASE PRICES (thru Spring, 2007) direct from the maker.
Home use: $25 Library/archive/media center: $75 Classroom use: $110
Available on DVD and all videotape formats. Add $15 shipping.

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