At the beginning of September 2024, a few members of the research team travelled to Seoul to meet the curators of the MMCA (L. Hong, H. Woo, Y. Sung, S. Lee), the Nam June Paik Art Center (S. Park, S. Lee), Hyundai Artlab , and other institutions, in order to discuss digital exhibitions in relation to the historical work of Nam June Paik.
It was also an opportunity to see his original works (or versions of them) on display, and to reassess the importance of Paik’s return to South Korea from the mid-80s (1984), and his impact on the Korean art scene.
Finally, the simultaneous holding of other Asian biennials and art fairs enabled us to assess the topicality of our research questions in Asia.