Les robots de nam june paik biography
Nam june paik...
Family of Robot ()
Here’s a quick primer on Nam June Paik: He was a founding member of experimental art group FLUXUS; He’s widely considered to be the Father of video art; He coined the phrase “electronic super highway” fifteen years before the first web browser was even available.
Paik was so far ahead of his time that he didn’t just influence the world of art, his art influenced the use of technology in popular culture as we know it today.
Les robots de nam june paik biography
But when I think of Nam June Paik, I always, ALWAYS, think of one thing first: Robots.
In Paik debuted Family of Robot, containing three generations of anthropomorphic robots constructed from antiquated wooden TV cabinets and Bakelite radio consoles.
I was completely unaware of these at the time, because I was in the last gasp of my preteen adolescence, spending summers at my grandparents house watching cartoons about my favourite toys, The Transformers, on TV sets that looked a lot like the ones Paik would incorporate into his work.
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