Nam June Paik (review and criticism by Nena Dimitrijevic)

'''Dimitrijevic, Nena. "Nam June Paik."' Flash Art'' (International Edition) 144 (Jan./Feb. 1989): 130.

ND uses a rev. of exhibitions at London's Hayward Gallery and Nigel Greenwood Gallery to put Paik's career into a critical framework, finding in Paik's work a love/hate relationship with technology in which he is fascinated by it but places the human spirit above it. Paik: "I want to make technology ridiculous." Paik's oeuvre is in two parts: the early visions that "naturalize TV" into a transmitter of Zen-inspired messages and the more recent "monuments to the meaningless flood of television images which dominate our lives"—including Family of Robot (1986), which ND finds a less anarchic version of the FLUXUS robot of 1964, K-456.

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