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Construction has begun on the Nam June Paik Museum (south of Seoul) commemorating the late Korean-born video artist Nam June Paik. The $31 million-project is to be completed by October 2008. The museum will feature a broad selection of Paik's works, personal belongings and a video archive. A true visionary, Paik embraced the medium of television, and became the founding father of video art. His work included television sculpture, satellite art, robotic devices, laser art (post-video), and giant video walls with synthesized imagery pulsating from stacks of cathode-ray tubes. As
we previously reported,
Nam June Paik inspired artists around the world to seek
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Is information the currency of the new economy? If you read Super Crunchers, by Ian Ayres, that is the conclusion you will be pointed to. In fact, the book argues that data crunching is having an impact on everything from daily personal decisions to public policy. This can have a serious effect on how companies attempt to influence public opinion.
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Vint Cerf helped build the Internet in California in the 1970s, revolutionizing the way people obtain information and consume media. Now he sees television quickly reaching what he calls its "iPod Moment."
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According to a study from Pew Research Center for the People and the Press, an overwhelming majority of the public (87 percent) says celebrity scandals receive too much news coverage. This criticism generally holds across most major demographic and political groups. Virtually no one thinks there is too little coverage of celebrity scandals.
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As recent events in Myanmar so vividly portrayed, the
role of journalists in today's media-driven society can
be very dangerous. More than 1,000 journalists have been
killed in war zones or assassinated in the past ten
years, as reported by the International
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