Nam June Paik, cybernetics and machines at play.

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dc.contributor.author	Ballard, Susan	en
dc.date.accessioned	2013-11-22
dc.date.available	2013-11-22
dc.date.issued	2013-01-01	en
dc.identifier.citation	Cleland, K., Fisher, L. & Harley, R. (2013) Proceedings of the 19th International Symposium on Electronic Art, ISEA2013, Sydney.	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/2123/9664
dc.description.abstract	Nam June Paik's playful, imperfect and often ambiguous use of cybernetics has left an important legacy for contemporary media art. Paik's works demonstrate that it is essential to temper aesthetics with ethics in order to question the utopian dreams of the very materials electronic artists work with. Paik's works also suggest a new way to think about the machine in art. This paper focuses on the impacts of communication and control in the machine (and subsequently the network) in Paik's Robot K-456 and suggests a reconceptualization of Paik's cybernetic machine as a machinic process enmeshed in communication systems.	en
dc.publisher	ISEA International	en
dc.publisher	Australian Network for Art & Technology	en
dc.publisher	University of Sydney	en
dc.subject	Nam June Paik	en
dc.subject	Cybernetics	en
dc.subject	Systems	en
dc.subject	Art	en
dc.subject	Machine	en
dc.subject	Machinic Assemblage	en
dc.subject	Deleuze and Guattari	en
dc.subject	Norbert Wiener	en
dc.subject	Jack Burnham	en
dc.title	Nam June Paik, cybernetics and machines at play.	en
dc.type	Conference paper	en
usyd.faculty	University hosted conferences