technology is one with nature._
Garden
Garden
Garden
imagined a world
where technology is
one with nature._
is a reality that we
are reaching for today._
that we are reaching for today._
live plants, Paik created
an imagined space where
seemingly distinct realms
of electronics and nature
coexist._
plants, Paik created an
imagined space where
seemingly distinct realms of
electronics and nature coexist._
Buddhist philosophy
that everything is
interdependent.
It also suggests that
technology is not in
conflict with nature
but an extension of
the human realm._
philosophy that everything is
interdependent. It also suggests
that technology is not in
conflict with nature but
an extension of the human realm._
and half technological. ...
...we must have strong
human element to keep
modesty and natural life."
- Nam June Paik, 1986_
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 strong
human element to keep
modesty and natural life."
- Nam June Paik_
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San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, May 8 October 3, 2021. Photo: Adam Jacobs Photography