Technology

Date: 1991
 * [[image:https://s3.amazonaws.com/saam.media/files/styles/x_large/s3/images/1994/1994.29_1a.jpg?itok=5jPdzvfp width="208" height="350" link="@https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/technology-33907"]] || Title: **Technology**

Artist: **Nam June Paik** Born: Seoul, Korea 1932 Died: Miami Beach, Florida 2006

Medium: 25 video monitors, 3 laser disc players with unique 3 discs in a cabinet of various materials Dimensions: 127 x 51 7/8 x 75 5/8 in. (322.6 x 131.7 x 192.1 cm.) Smithsonian American Art Museum Museum purchase through the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment

Accession: 1994.29 || //Technology// is a video sculpture, one of 13 pieces of Nam June Paik's "Cathedral" series... The series is also referred to as //My Faust// in which the artist used the 13 "stations" corresponding to the 13 New York cable-TV stations... to represent many subjects of universal interest of modern civilization: Agriculture, Art, Autobiography, Communications, Economics, Education, Environment, Medicine, Nationalism, Populatio, Religion, and Transportation. The subtitle //My Faust// gives the viewer what Paik had in mind, and that is to celebrate contemporary culture but at the same time keep in mind there are problems, trade-offs, and difficulties that come with progress. The positive and negative aspects are incorporated into each of the pieces. (Alexis Levine, 1997)
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Paik's Technology in American Art Technology Overview Technology Acquisition Proposal More resources available about Nam June Paik on the Electronic Superhighway page
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">About the Artist <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">SAAM Collections Page
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