Though the first use of the phrase Information Superhighway is often attributed to Al Gore, who mentioned it during a 1979 speech, Nam June Paik (1932 – 2006) is the first official person to use it. Paik recalls his use of the phrase: “I thought: if you create a highway, then people are going to invent cars. That’s dialectics. If you create electronic highways, something has to happen.”

Paik is best known as the father of video art, that is, video as both an artistic subject and a medium. A common motif of his was screen-multiplicity, connoting that our contemporary reality is composed out of multiple media sourced facets.

Paik often experimented with arrays of video/TV screens built-into symbolic objects.  This physical embedding of screens was far different from how most people experienced video, to be placed on a pedestal in the living room.   The web has brought Paik’s notion of video existing as as multi-point communication facet of identities to the mainstream.  The modern people-centric web allows video to be embedded into the online persona, acting a as a part of you that shares visions/experiences.

Contemporary mass-adopted Broadband technologies, are used to their fullest for video at home streaming video. The high carrying capacity and stable connection required for HD online video is pushing connections to the limit.  I suppose these are the latest ”cars” on our electronic super highway.

“Skin has become inadequate in interfacing with reality. Technology has become the body’s new membrane of existence.” — Nam June Paik

The Biz Media’s own @natekogan of #nateslife, and photographer for The Art of Marketing, wants to share a sneak peek of the official event photos with you.

And from @JUSTIN_FROM_BNS, @DAN_FROM_BNS and @mynameisguygal, we want to thank The Art of Marketing for hosting such a world class event and express how grateful we are to have been a part of it. We’re excited to participate in the next Art of… event.

More photos coming soon.

Here is our newest video which is going to be used to promote the upcoming Art of Marketing conference.

The line-up at this event speaks for itself. Fantastic.

The Art of Marketing
Presented by Microsoft Dynamics
March 2nd, 2010
John Bassett Theatre
www.theareofmarketing.ca

Speakers:
Seth Godin
Dan Heath
Mitch Joel
Max Lenderman
Sally Hogshead

It’s one of the great pleasures of my life to be involved with The Art of Productions.
On October 16th Justin and I will be filming at the Art of Management event at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre. Speakers at this event include Marcus Buckingham, Tom Peters, Mitch Joel and one of my personal heroes – David Allen.

This is a promo video we did for the event and check out http://www.theartofproductions.com/events-managementToronto_Oct09.html to get info on tickets.

See you there!