Nam June Paik and Bill Viola

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Two of the leading video artists who helped develop the form are Nam June Paik and Bill Viola. Nam June Paik is generally credited with starting the video art movement:

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"Two of the leading video artists who helped develop the form are Nam June Paik and Bill Viola. Nam June Paik is generally credited with starting the video art movement:

A unique achievement is that of Nam June Paik, the Korean-American artist and musician who was in at the origin of Video Art and who, more than twenty-five years later, continues to dominate the scene with his varied and elaborate video sculptures, environments and installations, while he remains true to his Fluxus-inspired critical position.

Bill Viola has been an important figure in the movement and has produced a number of important and challenging works using video as a medium."

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