(signal beeps) (classical violin playing) (violin music distorting) - [Narrator] Although I'm an artist, I'm not really concerned about so said art world. (classic violin playing) I'm concerned to whole world. (zapping) (banging) (quick ascending note) (crashing) - Hello. Today, I thought we could talk about someone who's widely regarded as the father of video art. - Nam June Paik, avant garde musician, self-taught engineer. - The Nostradamus of the digital age. - He envisioned the internet. - He could see where all of this was going. (fire hisses) (quick ascending note) - This is a glimpse of a video landscape of tomorrow. - The future that he was predicting was that every artist would be his own channel. - Look where we are now with selfies. (scraping noise) (classical violin music) - Like a superhighway, it is called, internet. - The information superhighway. - He had a different sense of purpose, different idea of what an artist's job might be. (static hissing) (somber piano music) - [Narrator] History will repeat itself if we don't plan the future carefully. - Television was the advanced technology in having influence on other people. - We've had enough of that in the United States. - [Narrator] I wanted to carve out a different path. (base note dropping) - But he was too early. - Looking in the rear view mirror, as usual. - Being an artist in a medium that has no market is enough of an existential threat. I mean, I don't know how he lived. - He was afraid of having to return to Korea. (dramatic piano note) - [Narrator] I'm fighting a war of persistence. (shaker music) - Nam June was non-stop. - What he was always interested is to bring cultures together. - Shall we toast to the new year? - We know the world through the colonial guise. How would it be if we were capable of actually seeing the world from another point of view? - Nam June was always transcending our vision of reality. Opening up unbelievable possibilities. (sharp whistling) (contemplative music) (distorted noise fading out)