Editing Nam June Paik (section)

==Archive==
Given its largely antiquated technology, Paik's oeuvre poses a unique conservation challenge.<ref name="Technological Masterpieces">{{cite web|author=Rachel Wolff|date=December 14, 2012|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424127887324481204578175263823931892#|title=Technological Masterpieces|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180622220349/https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424127887324481204578175263823931892|archive-date=June 22, 2018|work=[[Wall Street Journal]]}}</ref> In 2006, Nam June Paik's estate asked a group of museums for proposals on how each would use the archive. Out of a group that included the [[Museum of Modern Art]], the [[J. Paul Getty Museum]], the [[Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum]] and the [[Whitney Museum of American Art]], it chose the [[Smithsonian American Art Museum]]. The archive includes Paik's early writings on art history, history and technology; correspondence with other artists and collaborators like Charlotte Moorman, John Cage, [[George Maciunas]] and [[Wolf Vostell]]; and a complete collection of videotapes used in his work, as well as production notes, television work, sketches, notebooks, models and plans for videos. It also covers early-model televisions and video projectors, radios, record players, cameras and musical instruments, toys, games, folk sculptures and the desk where he painted in his SoHo studio.<ref name="nytimes.com"/>

Curator [[John Hanhardt]], an old friend of Paik, said of the archive: "It came in great disorder, which made it all the more complicated.  It is not like his space was perfectly organized.  I think the archive is like a huge memory machine.  A wunderkammer, a wonder cabinet of his life."<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://americanart.si.edu/education/rs/artwork/curator.cfm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130606220824/http://americanart.si.edu/education/rs/artwork/curator.cfm|url-status=dead|title=Americanart.si.edu|archive-date=June 6, 2013}}</ref> Hanhardt describes the archives in the catalog for the 2012 Smithsonian show in the book ''Nam June Paik: Global Visionary''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.goodreads.com/work/best_book/21996766-nam-june-paik-global-visionary|title=Nam June Paik|website=www.goodreads.com|access-date=June 28, 2020|archive-date=April 23, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210423080750/https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16156955-nam-june-paik|url-status=live}}</ref>

Michael Mansfield, associate curator of film and media arts at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, supervised the complex installation of several hundred CRT TV sets, the wiring to connect them all, and the software and servers to drive them. He developed an app on his phone to operate every electronic artwork on display.<ref name="Anderson">{{cite news | url=http://www.artinamericamagazine.com/news-features/news/nam-june-paik-smithsonian/ | work=Art in America | first=John | last=Anderson | title=Nam June Paik: Preserving the Human Televisions | date=February 6, 2013 | access-date=May 16, 2017 | archive-date=May 20, 2017 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170520232842/http://www.artinamericamagazine.com/news-features/news/nam-june-paik-smithsonian/ | url-status=live }}</ref>

Many of Paik's early works and writings are collected in a volume edited by [[Judson Rosebush]] titled ''Nam June Paik: Videa 'n' Videology 1959–1973,'' published by the Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York, in 1974.