South Korean artist Nam June Paik (1932-2006) was a pioneer of video art from the 1960s onwards, and the first to describe the future of telecommunications as an “electronic super highway”. Throughout his decades-long career, Paik was interested in how technology could connect the world, and made eerily accurate predictions of the future.
It’s fitting then, that Paik’s video wall sculpture, Internet Dream (1994), featuring a stacked installation of 52 TV monitors, will be exhibited in Melbourne next month for the first time at the National Communication Museum (NCM).
