Mission
As christened by the artist himself, Nam June Paik Art Center aims to be a museum where Paik lives on. It is not just to remain a memorial for the artist, but to seek an active undertaking to increase the awareness of Paik’s work and life far and wide. The first public museum specializing in media art in Korea, Nam June Paik Art Center also embraces cutting-edge forms of media art and new generations of media artists, and devotes itself to cultivating artistic and scholarly experiments in creative and critical ways.
Vision
Art with Paik-hearted technology
Core Values
Convivial, Accessible, Inventive
Aims
1. To spread the work of Non-Fungible Paik:
– pioneer new forms of exhibitions based on radical curatorial research
– organize festive events inspired by ideas of the commons and togetherness
– raise the online accessibility of collections, archives, and scholarly outcomes
2. To enhance the power of art to cultivate and elaborate technology:
– encourage the experimentation of media art that could change a way of thinking
– provide learning opportunities that could see technology trans-disciplinarily
– invent the methodology of XR technologies with an imagination, “if Paik did it”
3. To contribute to the ecology of museums:
– diversify collaboration and partnership with artists and art institutions
– be open to popular arts and culture
– foster an organizational reflection on society and environment in everyday practices
