1932-2006 Born in South Korea in 1932, Nam June Paik studied music composition at the University of Tokyo, where he wrote his thesis on Modernist composer Arnold Schoenberg. Paik has since created a vast array of installations, videotapes, global television productions, films, and performances. No other artist has had a greater influence in imagining and realizing the artistic potential of video and television than Paik. He has had mid-career retrospectives and major exhibitions at The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (2000); the Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland (1991); the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (1982); and more than 60 other international venues. For more than twenty years, Paik has worked with laser expert Norman Ballard to explore and expand the possibilities of the laser as an artistic medium. Transmission joins their extensive body of collaborative work, which includes Jacob's Ladder at The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (2000) and Baroque Laser in Münster, Germany (1995).