Edith Decker-Phillips, born 1953, studied painting, art history, archaeology, ethnology and German language and literature in Bremen and Hamburg. In 1985 she received her Ph.D. in art history with a dissertation on Nam June Paik. Among her publications are two books on Nam June Paik: German edition of Paik Video (1988) and Niederschriften eines Kulturnomaden: Selected Writings (1992).
