The 1998 Kyoto Prize Workshops

Artist Linking Asia and the World

Nam June Paik

/　　Media artist

Arts and Philosophy

Arts（Painting, Sculpture, Craft, Architecture, Photography, Design, etc.）

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1998

11 /12 Thu

13:20 - 17:30

Place： Kyoto International Conference Center

Address：Takaragaike, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-0001 Japan

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Program

13:20

OpeningGreetings	Toyomi Inamori Managing Director, the Inamori Foundation

13:25

Introduction of Laureate	Shuji Takashina Chairman, the Kyoto Prize Committee in Creative Arts and Moral Sciences; Director, National Museum of Western Art ”From the Asia, from the Planet”

13:40

Commemorative Lecture	Nam June Paik, Laureate ”Global Groove and the Video Common Market”

14:10

Lecture	Katsuhiro Yamaguchi Media Artist ”Nam June Paik, a Leading Figure in Media Art”

14:40

Intermission

15:00

Media Live	”Global Celebration” On-Line video messages arrive from well-known figures in the art world from around the world to commemorate the prize won by Nam June Paik, pioneer artist of the Internet age.

15:30

Lecture	Young Soon Kim Director, Dae-Yu Foundation of Culture ”Nam June Paik in the Korean Contemporary Arts”

16:00

Forum	”Paik by Paik: Globally Simultaneous Avant-garde” Moderator: Junji Ito Panelists: Nam June Paik Toshi Ichiyanagi, Musician Toshio Matsumoto, Vice President, Kyoto University of Arts and Design

17:30

Closing

Laureates

Nam June Paik

Media artist

Mr. Paik, an artist representing this high-tech age, has always been a pioneer, opening up new and rich worlds of creation, providing his contemporaries with visions and dreams. To modern art, he introduced the genre now known as ”video art,” which he then developed into ”media art.”

＊This category then was Category of Creative Arts and Moral Sciences.

＊This field then was Field of Arts (Painting, Sculpture, Design, Architecture).

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date: Nov. 12, 1998, 13:20-17:30
place: Kyoto International Conference Center
Coordinator and Moderator: Junji Ito, Member, the Kyoto Prize Screening Committee in Creative Arts and Moral Sciences; Art Critic