I went to the Asia society museum with a couple of my classmates. We were all unfamiliar with Nam June Paik but we had very similar options on his artwork. It was very difficult to understand the underlining themes in some of his pieces, but I was fascinated with how different they all were. There were several quotes of his displayed on the walls, and from this I understood that he was trying to introduce the emergence of technology with ourself. His motivation in some of his pieces was humanizing the wires and cables that he worked with. In one piece, he took a small television and colored it with paint the same way a little kid would.
He was creating these pieces at a time where technology was accelerating so fast people were uncertain where it would all lead. Some of his pieces tackled this problem by asserting that technology will one day be a huge part of our lives, so much so that we will have a hard time distinguishing the dividing line with our devices and ourselves. I think this theme echoes louder now that we pretty much live in our phones and we have become like the very robot that is on exhibit
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