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Review the The mutability of media: film and the art of nam june paik By jud yalkut
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The late internationally acclaimed filmmaker, Jud Yalkut, presented this essay at the Smithsonian symposium held in tandem with the retrospective exhibition, Nam June Paik: Global Visionary in 2010. Yalkut and Paik shared a life long collaboration, working together in New York City in the 1960s and then until Paik's death in 2006 producing and exchanging image processed film and video footage. Nam June Paik is considered the father of video art because of his brilliant use of new technologies as a creative tool for the production of art.
"The artwork and ideas of the Korean-born artist Nam June Paik were a major influence on late twentieth-century art and continue to inspire a new generation of artists. Nam June Paik: Global Visionary offers an unprecedented view into the artist's creative method by featuring key artworks that convey Paik's extraordinary accomplishments as a major international artist as well as material drawn from the Nam June Paik Archive, which was acquired by the Smithsonian American Art Museum from the artist's estate in 2009." (Smithsonian, Hanhardt, John. Nam June Paik: Global Visionary)
Yalkut is best known for his visionary works in film and video, that include collaborations with USCO, Nam June Paik, Charlotte Moorman, Yayoi Kusama, Julio Le Parc, Trisha Brown, John Cage and many others. A defining characteristic of collaborations by these artists is that they challenged and engaged the interactive possibilities of their medium and audience within multicultural social and cultural spaces. During the 60s and 70s within this cross disciplinary and intermedia experimentation, artists transformed the process and traditional meanings of mass media and entertainment culture. Yalkut and Korean born Nam Jun Paik's early collaborative experiments (in film and video) that manipulated the broadcast video signal produced works such as Videotape Study No. 3 (1967-69) and "Beatles Electroniques" (1969). An important aspect of Yalkut's film/video is the way the work connects with interdisciplinary interaction across gender, race and ethnicity in the art forms of music, dance, performance and the visual arts. Yalkut pioneered the practice of immersive film and video environments that incorporate the spectator as active participant.
We need to understand the historical connections between film and video practices and how the history of moving images informs developments in technological image production.
Briefly summarize and then give your informed commentary.