Nam June Paik

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Nam June Paik is one of the few discples of Fluxus, and John Cage that has moved into respect in the "high modern" art world. He is also one of the few video, digital and light installation artist to be widely recognized. Paik was initially a composer of the Stockhausen variety, obviously then moving into the realm of the electronics. Many of his works seem to be tape collages, but some are merely recordings of his crazed performances in which he hauntingly berates and chills the audience, once cutting of Cage's tie. However, there are some piano pieces and musical works of Paik's that do have a rare almost Satie, or the more atonal but still not quite atonal, early Schoenberg.