This exhibition at first glance was really dysfunctional and weird. I couldn’t wrap my head around what the artist was trying to accomplish, many of the pieces were just T.V.’s with incomprehensible scribbles drawn on them. It just looked like Nam June Paik took a paint brush and scrawled over everything with little thought.

Nam June Paik dabbled in many of the arts such as music, painting and video editing, but in all these different mediums he included some sort of technology. I started to learn that one of his purposes was to humanize technology and he did it quite literally in one of his pieces. He stacked many televisions together to create a robot family, as well as drawing on them to create a face and basing them on specific influential people like Li Tai Po.

Other pieces included placing a camera right in front of a golden Buddha and then projecting the image on a television that is also facing the Buddha. I began to see Nam June Paik as a playful person who likes to poke fun at certain concepts for amusement. His personality really did show through his art work and he was able to use technology, something that disconnects and hinders more intimate communications, and make it more personable.