Nam June Paik Quotes
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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.
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I am a poor man from a poor country, so I have to be entertaining every second.
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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.
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Without electricity, there can be no art.
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The culture that's going to survive in the future is the culture that you can carry around in your head.
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I make technology ridiculous.
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Cybernated art is very important, but art for cybernated life is
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The future is now.
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Art is just fraud. You just have to do something nobody else has done before.
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Skin has become inadequate in interfacing with reality. Technology has become the body's new membrane of existence.
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Paik (1969) Versatile Color TV Synthesizer, Manifesto, cited in: Edith Decker-Phillips. Paik Video, Barrytown, Limited, 1998. p. 154
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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.
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I want to shape the TV screen canvas