oadcasts. This piece contrasts two very different experiences—contemplation and reaction. The broken sets were once removed up by a group of community service workers who thought they were trash, but employees of the university were able to restore them to their rightful places.In a series that started with Robot K-456, which walked, talked, and defecated beans, Paik used electronics to create humanoid forms. The members of the Family of Robot, instead of the mobile form of “robot,” are televisions stacked up in human forms. These new robots are architectural in nature, animated by the videos, which play on each screen. Family of Robot: High-tech Child consists of 13 modern televisions which flash synthesized images at a rapid pace. Paik’s “child” represents the child of the future, and the present, who has been raised with television as his/her main source of entertainment and information. The “child” stands on an older model TV illustrating the roots of television, and takes a classical Greek pose seen in sculptures of young men symbolizing the artistic roots of the piece. High-tech Child encompasses the elements of both humor and irony found in much of Paik’s work. Megatron/Matrix is a mesmerizing multimedia installation consisting of a total of 215 monitors. Megatron is a 150 monitor, billboard-sized wall of flashing images forming a visual commotion. Matrix consists of 65 monitors and adjoins Megatron. The video and animations include iconic images from both East and West, pictures from the Olympic games in Seoul, scenes of Korean rituals, David Bowie concert footage, and computer generated animations. Every now and then the entire wall becomes the flag of Canada, Finland or Japan. All of the monitors operate independently, but share multiple random combinations of video. All of this is set to audio ranging from ritual chants to rock, and is controlled by a compli...
