The exhibition celebrates Paik as the inventor of media art, presenting his artistic path and highlighting his diverse talents - experimental, musical, philosophical, spiritual, political and technological. The exhibition showcases around ninety works from all phases of his career, many shown in the UK for the first time, alongside a rich selection of documentary materials from Paik's performances and early exhibitions.

Paik's work developed from music via Fluxus actions and performance to media works, with manipulated television images providing the foundation for his video art. This inventive use of technology became Paik's signature style, and the exhibition showcases a number of his iconic works including seven TV Buddhas, four robot sculptures and two TV cellos. His early manipulated television works Zen for TV 1963 (1982) and Magnet TV 1965 feature, as does the mesmerising projection One Candle 1989 and his Video Synthesizer 1969 (1992).

Paik's influential collaborations are brought alive through documents, photographs and rare performance footage. His friendship with artist Joseph Beuys and his collaboration with cellist Charlotte Moorman, which was particularly significant in the context of the New York avant-garde, are explored in depth. Other collaborators and colleagues including Shuya Abe, Yoko Ono, Laurie Anderson, Mary Bauermeister, Alison Knowles, Merce Cunningham and David Bowie feature in documentary material and video works presented at Tate Liverpool and FACT.

Focusing on Paik's creative experiments with emerging technology, we will present the UK premiere of major installation Laser Cone alongside a series of single-screen and video documents including Global Groove and groundbreaking satellite video Bye Bye Kipling.