The Revisit of Sentience: Nam June Paik’s Big Sleep in Interactive Art
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Session Title:
- Machinic Sense & Sensibility: Interaction and Embodiment
Presentation Title:
- The Revisit of Sentience: Nam June Paik’s Big Sleep in Interactive Art
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Abstract:
Nam June Paik created unprecedented art projects for his first solo exhibition in 1963. He invented a variety of interactive art pieces with diverse senses. They encouraged visitors to intervene in the process of making/manipulating unfinished art projects. Even though Paik ambitiously made interactive art for the audience, later on he hardly created interactive art. This paper examines concrete evidence for why he stopped making interactive art and about 30 years later revisited it as cutting-edge art.
