Nam June Paik quotes

Our life is half natural and half technological. Half-and-half is good. You cannot deny that high-tech is progress. We need it for jobs. Yet if you make only high-tech, you make war. So we must have a strong human element to keep modesty and natural life. (Nam June Paik)
Skin has become inadequate in interfacing with reality. Technology has become the body's new membrane of existence. View quote
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Without electricity, there can be no art. View quote
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The future is now. View quote
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Cybernated art is very important, but art for cybernated life is more important, and the latter need not be cybernated.... Cybernetics, the science of pure relations, or relationship itself, has its origin in karma... The Buddhists also say Karma is samsara Relationship is metempsychosis. View quote
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I want to shape the TV screen canvas as precisely as Leonardo, as freely as Picasso, as colorfully as Renoir, as profoundly as Mondrian, as violently as Pollock and as lyrically as Jasper Johns. View quote
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I am a poor man from a poor country, so I have to be entertaining every second. View quote
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I make technology ridiculous. View quote
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By using TV as a bra... the most intimate belonging of a human being, we will demonstrate the human use of technology, and also stimulate viewers... to look for the new, imaginative and humanistic ways of using our technology. View quote
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It is the historical necessity, if there is a historical necessity in history, that a new decade of electronic television should follow to the past decade of electronic music. View quote
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Art is just fraud. You just have to do something nobody else has done before. (Nam June Paik)
As collage technique replaced oil paint, the cathode ray tube will replace the canvas. Someday artists will work with capacitors, resistors, and semiconductors as they work today with brushes, violins and junk. There are 4,000,000 dots per second on one television screen, just think of the variety of images you can get. It's so cool. It's like going to the moon. View quote
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