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- Rebecca Wright was born on 5 December 1947 in Springfield, Ohio, USA. She was an actress, known for Stardust Memories (1980), The Nutcracker (1977) and The CBS Festival of Lively Arts for Young People (1973). She was married to George De La Pena and Charles Spaeth. She died on 29 January 2006 in Chevy Chase, Maryland, USA.
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Nam June Paik was the first video artist who experimented with electronic media and made a profound impact on the art of video and television. He coined the phrase "Information Superhighway" in 1974, and has been called the "father of video art."
He was born Nam June Paik on July 20, 1932 in Seoul, South Korea. He was the fifth son of a textile manufacturer. Young Paik was fond of music and art, he studied piano in Seoul. In 1950 the Paik family fled from the Korean War, first to Hong Kong, and later to Japan. There he graduated from the University of Tokyo (1956), where he studied art, music history, and philosophy, and wrote a thesis on Arnold Schönberg.
Paik continued his music studies in Germany. He collaborated with Karlheinz Stockhausen and John Cage, who inspired his transition into electronic arts. In 1959 he performed his "Hommage a John Cage" with pre-recorded music and motorcycle, with participation of people and live chicken. Paik also carried out experimental work with Karlheinz Stockhausen in the Electronic Music Studio of the West Deutscher Rundfunk (WDR) in Cologne, Germany. Paik was a friend of Yoko Ono from 1963, when they first met at her home in Tokyo. At that time, he took part in the Post Neo-Dada art movement "Fluxus" with George Maciunas, Yoko Ono and other avant-garde artists.
Paik's modified TV monitors were first presented in 1963, in his solo show titled "Exposition of Music-Electronic Television" in Germany. In 1964 he moved to New York and continued experiments with music and video performance. His ground-braking interactive video-works began in 1965, when he started experiments with his video camera, with electromagnets, and with color TV. At that time Paik also collaborated with engineer Shuya Abe in Japan. He continued as artist-in-residence at WGBH public broadcaster in Boston, USA. There he constructed the first video synthesizer together with Shuya Abe in 1969. A large magnet outside the TV monitor was used to alter the image and create an abstract picture. He produced random patterns of light by causing distortions to the electron emission spot on a phosphorous screen. Paik later used multiple TV monitors and robots, made of TV sets, metal and electronic components. In his TV project " TV Buddha" a statue of a sitting Buddha is facing it's own image on a closed-circuit TV.
Paik was the founding father of Video Art. He advanced our perceptions of the temporal image and it's role in contemporary art. His largest project was "Wrap around the World" designed for the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul, Korea. There he mounted a giant media-tower shaped like a birthday cake, called "The More the Better" and used 1003 TV monitors for a non-stop presentation of Video-Art images and performances by Korean drummers and international artists: Laurie Anderson, David Bowie, Merce Cunningham, Sergei Kuryokhin among others.
Nam June Paik is credited for creating the term "Electronic Super Highway" in his 1974 report, commissioned by the Rockefeller Foundation. In the 90s, when "information superhighway" became a hot phrase, he commented, "Bill Clinton stole my idea." In 1996 Paik became disabled after having a stroke, and was in a wheelchair for ten years in his later life, but his energy and intellect were as productive as ever. He was a highly creative member of society, a provocative experimental artist and thinker whose ideas and performances made a profound effect on the art of video and television. His works are now preserved in museum collections across the world. Nam June Paik died on January 29, 2006 in Miami Beach, Florida, USA.
"He made the World Family wiser", said his friend Yoko Ono. A space rock was named "Paik" in his honor.- Actress
Sally Rogers was born on 30 September 1921 in Hammersmith, London, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Trilby (1947), Ten Little Niggers (1949) and A Woman of No Importance (1948). She was married to Anthony Sagar. She died on 29 January 2006 in Trowbridge, Wiltshire, England, UK.- Director
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Yanush Alexander Vazov was born on August 27, 1927 in Poznan, Poland. He graduated in "film directing" in Prague, Czechoslovakia (1954). Yanush Vazov is the son of Alexander Vazov , brother of Christina Vazova and husband of Lada Boyadjieva .He was a member of the Union of Bulgarian Filmmakers. He received the Order "Cyril and Methodius" (1966), the Order "Red Banner of Labor" (1977). He won "Silver dove" at Leipzig Festival, 1968 for documentary film "Shadow over Holiday". His movie "Coming back" (made together with his wife Lada Boyadjieva) was banned by Communist censorship. He died on January 29, 2006 in Sofia, Bulgaria.- Actress
Doris Revier was born on 19 August 1922 in the USA. She was an actress. She died on 29 January 2006 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Writer
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John Brown was born on 26 July 1944 in Burntisland, Fife, Scotland, UK. He was a writer, known for Inspector Morse (1987), The Flying Scotsman (2006) and Taggart (1983). He was married to Joan Low. He died on 29 January 2006 in Glasgow, Scotland, UK.- Mária Lamacková was born on 4 May 1934 in Dvorníky, Czechoslovakia [now Slovakia]. Mária was an editor, known for Janko Hrasko u kúzelníka (1973). Mária died on 29 January 2006 in Bratislava, Slovakia.
- Ludovico Spiess was born on 13 May 1938 in Cluj, Romania. He was an actor, known for Le trouvère (1972), Die Drehscheibe (1964) and Zum blauen Bock (1957). He died on 29 January 2006 in Toporu, Romania.