Artist: Paik, Nam June
Title/Year: Participation TV 1969
Dimensions: 30 x 31 3/4 x 24
Materials: Philco Color lite TV set, two microphones N.Y. amplifiers
Year: 7/82 (after Howard Wise talk on 5/28/82) (paid all his bills for Whitney exhibition + $1,000 sent to him for new TV set)
From: Artist
Owner: DWB
Location: Santa Ynez
Exhibited at: Wadsworth Atheneum 1984; Clock Tower 1986; PULSE 2 at S.B. 1990 (Peake Gallery); Ulrich Museum Wichita State 3/11/92 - 4/26/92; Butler
Comments: On display at Whitney retrospective (previously at Neuberger Museum Soundings) and agreed to sell to DWB if all his bills were paid for. Refused to estimate. DWB agreed anyway. Paul Garrin constructed.

Artist: Paik, Nam June
Title/Year: Virtually Wise, 1994
Dimensions: 82 x 66 x 66
Materials: 24 video monitors; 2 antique radios; 6 antique television cabinets; antique brass telephone; speaker horn; 3 telephones; Howard Wise's personal items: Polaroid prints, rolodex, brief case, wallet, papers, buttons, etc.; chair and desk: Sintra, Plexiglas, aluminum, and plywood; 4 laser disc players; 4 laser discs
Year: agreed 9/20/94
From: Carl Solway Gallery, paid 11/7/94 Cincinnati, Ohio (original price $100,000)
Owner: DWB
Location: Santa Ynez
Exhibited at: Whitney Museum exhibition 6/8 - 8/7/94; San Jose Museum 1998 as organized by Whitney Museum
Comments: Created for Whitney Museum exhibition "The Howard Wise Gallery: TV as a Creative Medium, 1969"

Nam June Paik, considered by many to be the father of video art, was born in Seoul, Korea in 1932. He was the first artist employing modern technology to be given a retrospective exhibition at the Whitney Museum, New York. An original member of the Flexus group centered in Europe during the 1 960's, he has had exhibitions in most of the important museums of the world.