Mission
As christened by the artist himself, Nam June Paik Art Center aims to be a museum where Paik lives on. It is not just to remain a memorial for the artist, but to seek an active undertaking to increase the awareness of Paik’s work and life far and wide. The only public museum specializing in media art in Korea, Nam June Paik Art Center also embraces cutting-edge forms of media art and new generations of media artists, and devotes itself to cultivating artistic and scholarly experiments in creative and critical ways.
Vision
Art defying boundaries, the Museum drawing up relations
Core Values
To live together, To share it with technology, To be mediated through art
Aims
1. We conduct research on Nam June Paik and media art in museological ways:
― play a role of epicenter for scholarly research on media art woven around Paik
― produce knowledge based on museological practices
― develop collections and archives, and the long-term policy on their conservation
2. We diversify our projects through experimentation and collaboration:
― pioneer new forms of media-based exhibitions and public programs
― foster the networking of artists, both emerging and established
― reinforce the capacity for international cooperation and joint enterprise
3. We spread the significances of art via museum channels:
— promote art that maps out humans, technology, society and nature interconnected
— provide public programs that expand the opportunities of art experience and learning
— deploy media technologies to establish a digital service platform
4. We uplift the openness of the museum as the commons of local communities:
— form a new community to get together and think together
— facilitate communication by raising online accessibility
— set up a system to ensure a safe museum visit against pandemic and other crises
