First issue of the biannual journal by the Nam June Paik Art Center. Digital version available for download.

'The aim of the NJP Reader is to contextualize Nam June Paik's artistic thought and random access strategies in a topical discursive practice...

This issue presents selected responses of international artists, critics and curators to the following 3 questions posted in the form of a questionnaire:
1. Artistic anthropology intends to produce novel models of relationality and connectivity. Could (Nam June Paik’s legacy as a form of) artistic anthropology contribute to an artistic discourse going beyond the framework of “relational aesthetics”? What artists in our day have developed relevant examples of rethinking and recontextualizing an artistic anthropology?
2. What could artistic anthropology mean to current artistic practice? How could it relate to medium-specific qualities? Is it a form of artistic communication defined by a postmedium-condition? Or is it a practice demanding the concept of medium-specificity to change?
3. What could artistic anthropology - as a form of knowledge production - mean for the current classification system? Will it challenge the dominant paradigms of the established humanities and sciences? What type of new models might trigger this? How could artistic anthropology contribute to a better and more political understanding of the “human condition”? And what could artistic anthropology mean for the concept of art in general?' —excerpt from the editorial

Note: The Archive holds one copy in English and another in Korean.