Lessons of The Videomaster by Skip Blumberg

Just watched Skip Blumberg's Hommage to Nam June Paik, a nice document focusing on the wake. Nam June's Wake... run riverun. Uptown to where the black clad artists comb their hair before paying respects to such a man, open casket, who single-handedly wielded the porta-pak that invented video art. Wielding his own modern-day porta-pak on the streets of NYC, Blumberg asks the people he meets at Paik's wake what they learned from Nam June, inserting little graphics and inset frames of clips from historical Paik video like "Global Groove" or 1984's international satellite telecast "Good Morning, Mr. Orwell". In the gallery-like setting of the wake, students rub shoulders with dignified art stars and come away equals in Paik's democratic kingdom of video. The disc includes documentation of the event held at the Guggenheim Museum to honor Paik, a beautiful performance by Yoko Ono that is the crown jewel of this dvd.

A blow-by-blow description of the Paik wake and Guggenheim event can be found at Yoko's website:
http://www.a-i-u.net/paik_rev.html