On September 30, 2023, PhD candidate Vuk Vuković presented his paper "Deconstructing Americana: Nam June Paik and Electronic Superhighway" as part of the "Fugitive Media: Aesthetics and Escape" panel at the Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present (ASAP/14) Annual Conference. His paper examined how Korean-born artist Nam June Paik, under the guise of flashing screens in his monumental work "Electronic Superhighway: Continental U.S., Alaska, Hawaii" (1995), deconstructs typical Americana images. Vuković also chaired a panel, "Challenging Institutions," which featured works of four scholars whose papers explored how artists employ their artistic practice to unveil, challenge, and push against the established institutional systems. Learn more at the conference's website.
