Nam June Paik: Becoming Robot exhibition at the Asia Society
museum was very eye opening and interesting. The robot that Paik constructed and tested out in Park ave
was unique. There was a video of the robot moving around in the city and then a
car crashed into it. The robot, Robot K-456 was the beginning of the
involvement of technology. There was also the bra video camera for the cellist
to make sex culture more acceptable. I feel as if Nam June Paik’s art work of
the video bra and the use of TV robots show that in the future, robots and
technology would be powerful enough to control the world. When Paik was born,
he was born into a generation of no television or technology. However, what he
created of the bra camera and the Robot K-456 and the family robots is a work
of art where the use of all these household inventions would now be applied in
the future.
What caught my eye was when I was reading the timeline of
inventions made; Paik came up with a similar invention similar to the Google
glass. I remember it was a movie glass or some glasses with visual playing.
Also before Sony offered Paik a portable video/audio recording device, he had
an invention where the device did record image and audio at the same time. I
find it interesting how Paik thought of an idea that is now invented in today’s
world just recently. Also the portapak of the video and audio recorder is a
reminder that Paik was aware of all the inventions and with these he was able
to come up with more ideas of the bra camera and the TV robot family.
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