
He said that 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 a strong human element to keep modesty and natural life". His works TV garden and Video fish seem to exemplify this feeling. You can view the latter here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiOeZxE5twQ. (It is labelled as the former btw.)
Samples of his work can be found here: http://channel.tate.org.uk/media/821234899001/ and http://www.ubu.com/sound/paik.html
More on Nam June Paik at http://www.paikstudios.com/
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