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- Title
- Robot K-456
- Year
- 1964(1996)
- Material
- PCB, 서보모터, 센서, 스피커, 앰프, 배터리, 원격 조종기, 팬, 철 구조물
PCB, servomotor, sensor, amplifier, battery, remote controller, pan, steel structures
- Description
- First exhibited in the Second Annual Avant-Garde Festival of New York in 1964, Robot K-456 is Nam June Paik’s first work that took the shape of a robot. Produced in collaboration with Japanese engineers, this work was a 20-channel remote-controlled robot and was named Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 18 in B-flat Major, Köchel’s number 456. The robot could walk around the street. Its mouth played a recording of President John F. Kennedy’s speech, and its bottom dropped peas as if defecating. Robot K-456 participated in a number of performances with Paik. In 1982, as part of Paik’s retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the robot appeared in an accident-performance where it was struck by a car while crossing a road. Paik called the performance “the first catastrophe of the 21st century,” trying to reveal the falsehood of mechanical rationality and propose a humanized machine that possesses human anxiety and emotion, which also experiences life and death.
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