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Nam June Paik, born 1932 in Seoul, Korea, lived and worked in New York. He died in 2006. Nam June Paik worked in many media - including sculpture, performance, music and television - and is a pioneer in the field of video art. Paik was based in New York but realized his projects and video installations globally. Spectacular works like the worldwide satellite broadcast of Good Morning Mr. Orwell on New Year´s Eve 1984 and "The more the better", a tower made of over a thousand monitors for the Seoul Olympics in 1988, have made Paik famous worldwide, and show his unmistakeable knack for taking advantage of the opportunities afforded by new electronic media and their significance for global civilization.