Nam June Paik Art Center prepared an exhibition-related talk program about the Consultant, Nam June Paik based on his writings. The Consultant: Paik’s Papers 1968-1979 pays attention to Paik’s critical period of creation from 1964, when Paik moved to New York, and reveals Paik as a media consultant in the transitional time of society based on the proposals recorded in the report at the time.
This lecture aims to create and share various perspectives on the purpose and works of the exhibition and Paik by inviting outside experts and an audience. As a researcher in history of science and technology, Hyungsub Choi examines changes in technology, social background, and Paik’s proposal, which are found in  “MEDIA PLANNING FOR THE POST INDUSTRIAL AGE” (1974) which was the basis for planning this exhibition among Paik’s papers. Following the lecture on Paik as a policymaker discovered from the perspective of a researcher in history of science and technology, Kim Yoonseo, curator of this exhibition will talk about other reports and exhibition works of Paik and moderate a Q&A session with the audience. We hope that many people come to the first exhibition-related talk in the new year 2023.

Choi Hyungsub is a professor at the College of Liberal Arts of Seoul National University of Science & Technology. Recently, he has been interested in and studying the aspects of science and technology in modern Korean history. In 2019, he received the 26th The Korean History of Science Society paper award for “Imported Machines in the Garden: the Kyŏngun’gi (power tiller) and Agricultural Mechanization in South Korea.” He has translated American Prometheus (2010), and The Ghost of the Executed Engineer (2017), co-authored The Chronicles of Korean Technoculture (2017), and participated as an editorial board member of Epi, a science criticism magazine, since its first publication. In 2021, he published The Moment of Recognizing Its Existence, a study of the technology and history in this era, including everyday objects.