[Af_List] Séance for Nam June Paik

[Andrew Clifford]

People in the Christchurch area this weekend might like to check out this
event, which I will be participating in, as part of the ADA symposium:

A screening/performance event
Saturday 23 February 2008
8pm, SOFA Gallery Basement, Christchurch Arts Centre.
$15/10 or Free Entry with Tending Networks: ADA Symposium Registration

“I use technology in order to hate it more properly” Nam June Paik

Séance for Nam June Paik will present new works to channel the ‘father of video
art’, and has been curated by Daniel Agnihotri-Clark.

Screening:
Disasteradio
Naomi Lamb
Emil McAvoy & Damian Stewart
Bronwyn Smith
Nathan Thompson
Dell McLeod

Performance:
Andrew Clifford
Morgan Barnard
Dan Untitled

Nam June Paik is widely regarded as the father of video art.  Innovative
digital artworks by  Aotearoa/New Zealanders will be presented in a new
project: to channel (and negotiate with) the spirit of the late Korean artist’s
practice. Séance for Nam June Paik provides the opportunity for Aotearoa/New
Zealand (affiliated) digital media artists to examine and respond to the legacy
and currency of Paik’s influential career. A peer-reviewed selection of new
artworks will be presented - as a series of faux séances for the Korean
artist.  Works will include video, audio, robotics and network-based pieces.

Séance for Nam June Paik is a screening/performance event curated by Daniel
Agnihotri-Clark, to be presented as part of Tending Networks: the fifth
Aotearoa Digital Arts (ADA) symposium (see www.aotearoadigitalarts.org.nz for
more information), and in conjunction with The Physics Room’s public
exhibitions programme.  Séance for Nam June Paik is also presented alongside
Adam Hyde and Julian Priest’s exhibition of network art entitled A Geekosystem
installed at The Physics Room.

While Paik’s work was largely analogue, his pioneering use of technology in art
practice has had an immense impact upon contemporary digital practices. Séance
for Nam June Paik roughly coincides with the one year anniversary of the Korean
artist’s death (on 29 Jan 2006). This anniversary is a timely opportunity to
reflect upon and respond to Paik’s influential practice.  The project will
naturally highlight the broader context of the 1960s Fluxus movement, and it’s
relevance to contemporary practice.

Paik’s œuvre addresses a broad cluster of concerns which sustained considerable
currency in the 1960s (and beyond).  The aim of this project is to test the
relevance and influence of these ideas amongst Aotearoa/New Zealand affiliated
artists who are practicing now.  How do today’s digital artists dialogue with
and respond to Paik’s ideas?  How do they find their own original voice, and
progress past the ambitious energy of his practice?

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