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Nam June Paik
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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.”
Nam June Paik (1932–2006) first seen 1965 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Nam June Paik (1965), as cited in: David Dunn, "A History of Electronic Music Pioneers." ders.(Hrsg.), Eigenwelt der Apparate-Welt.(Katalog), Linz (1992): 21-62.
“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.”
Nam June Paik (1932–2006) first seen 1965 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Manifesto, New York, October 1965, as cited in (1971). The computer in art. p. 95
“Cybernated art is very important, but art for cybernated life is”
Nam June Paik (1932–2006) said by 2006 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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.”
Nam June Paik (1932–2006) first seen 1969 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Statement on TV Bra for a Living Scultpure (1969), cited in: C. A. Xuan Mai Ardia, "[http://artradarjournal.com/2014/10/24/nam-june-paik-becoming-robot-new-york/ Nam June Paik: “Becoming Robot” in New York – in pictures…
“I want to shape the TV screen canvas”
Nam June Paik (1932–2006) said by 2006 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Without electricity, there can be no art.”
Nam June Paik (1932–2006) first seen 1976 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Nam June Paik, (c. 1976) in "Nam June Paik retrospective, Liverpool" by Emma O'Kelly in Wallpaper, 20 December 2010 (at archive.org).
“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 (1932–2006) first seen 1986 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In: Douglas C. McGill, ART PEOPLE, New York Times, October 3, 1986
“I make technology ridiculous.”
Nam June Paik (1932–2006) first seen 1992 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Leigh Landy, Antje von Graevenitz. " 'I MAKE TECHNOLOGY RIDICULOUS' — THE UNUSUAL DIALECTICS OF NAM JUNE PAIK," in: Leigh Landy (ed.) 1992. Technik, p. 79
“Art is just fraud. You just have to do something nobody else has done before.”
Nam June Paik (1932–2006) first seen 2006 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In interview with a Korean newspaper, quoted in: KoreAm Journal, Vol. 17 (2006), p. 79
“I am a poor man from a poor country, so I have to be entertaining every second.”
Nam June Paik (1932–2006) first seen 2006 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Attributed in: "For Paik," exhibition catalogue “Bye-bye Nam June Paik” at Watarium Museum, 2006.