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On this chapter, Invention: Media and Performance, there were different kinds of interesting artists had been introduced. Among them, I would like to describe the two sensational avant-garde artists, Nam June Paik and John Cage. These two artists influenced and changed the traditional forms of art making. Moreover, they challenged their works with the new experimental and left the huge impact and changed the new generation of the artists.

Nam June Paik, Korean- American, a first video artist who was using a portable videotape recorder, and started the digital revolution in art. Also people recognized him as the “Father of Video Art”. He was a sculptor, composer, performance artist. He had great passions in the musical education, so he moved and traveled to many countries to learn music. Most of his visual art works combined with the sound effects. And he used the furnitures that audiences could easily see and experience in their daily life. One of his work, TV Bra for Living Sculpture in 1969, it was a performance art using video playing on the two small pieces of TV monitors attached like bra to cellist Charolotte Moorman’s chest with the sound of her playing the cello. Nam Jun Paik explained his piece, “By using TV as a bra… the most intimate belonging of human being, we will demonstrate the human use of technology, and also stimulate viewers not for something mean but stimulate their phantasy to look for the new, imaginative and humanistic ways of using our technology.” This performance shows the relationship between the human and the technology, which means he wanted to say humanizing the technology. The technology should not be take over the human life, human should rule over the technology. However his futuristic media art started made the art widely and developed.

Nam June Paik’s great composer mentor, John Cage, was a American experimental composer and gave his opinion to audience that any sound can be music. He broke the history of the classical composition. And one of his famous major work , 4’ 3” , in 1976, which was not a instrument performance, he sat on the piano in the middle of street and closed the lid. He repeated to open and close the lid. During the performance in four minutes and thirty three seconds, he use the stop-watch, which measured each segment. While the performance, people whispers and shuffled in their spots, nature sounds and the cars were passing by them. He wanted people to focus, listen and share the present sounds that surrounded them, which is music. Further more he changed the world by the silence.

In conclusion, the both artists, they found out the ideas from the old ones which were we already experienced in our life. Transforming the intimate objects, furnitures or the noises, which people couldn’t thought about it, made to attract the audiences’ attention and brought the sensation to the world and also influenced many artists. However they left the great mark on the art history that changed a new genre instead of traditional and classical performance.

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In the chapter, ‘Invention: Media and Performance’, different kinds of interesting artists have been introduced. Among them, I would like to describe the two sensational avant-garde artists, Nam June Paik and John Cage, who have influenced and changed the traditional forms of art making. Moreover, they challenged their works with the new experimental, left a huge impact and changed the new generation of the artists.

Nam June Paik, who was a Korean- American, was the first video artist to use a portable videotape recorder, and started the digital revolution in art. People recognized him as the “Father of Video Art”. He was a sculptor, composer, and a performance artist. He had great passion for musical education, so he moved and travelled to many countries to learn music. Most of his visual art works have been combined with sound effects. He used furniture that audiences could easily see and experience in their daily life. One of his work, TV Bra for Living Sculpture in 1969, was a performance art using video playing on the two small pieces of TV monitors attached like a bra to cellist Charolotte Moorman’s chest with the sound of her playing the cello. Nam Jun Paik explained his piece, “By using TV as a bra… the most intimate belonging of human being, we will demonstrate the human use of technology, and also stimulate viewers not for something mean but to stimulate their fantasy to look for new, imaginative and humanistic ways of using our technology.” This performance shows the relationship between the human and the technology, which means he wanted to humanize technology. Technology should not be taking over human life, human should rule over the technology. However his futuristic media art spread widely and developed.

Nam June Paik’s great composer mentor, John Cage, was an American experimental composer and gave his opinion to the audience that any sound can be music. He broke the history of the classical composition. One of his famous major work , 4’ 3” , in 1976, which was not an instrument performance, where he sat on the piano in the middle of the street and closed the lid. He proceeded to repeatedly open and close the lid. The performance lasted four minutes and thirty three seconds, where he used the stop-watch, which measured each segment. During the performance, people whispered and shuffled in their spot, along with nature sounds and that of the cars passing by. He wanted people to focus, listen and share the present sounds that surrounded them, which is music. Further more he changed the world with the silence.

In conclusion, both artists found ideas from the old ones which were already experienced in our life. Transforming the intimate objects, furniture or the noise, which people couldn’t imagine, made to attract the audiences’ attention and brought the sensation to the world and also influenced many artists. However they left a great mark on the art history that created a new genre instead of traditional and classical performance.