{"id":149,"date":"2009-08-27T05:21:09","date_gmt":"2009-08-27T12:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/artwork\/robot-k456\/"},"modified":"2021-01-01T23:34:26","modified_gmt":"2021-01-02T07:34:26","slug":"robot-k456","status":"publish","type":"artwork","link":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/artwork\/robot-k456\/","title":{"rendered":"Robot K456"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Nam June Paik and Shuya Abe created one of the first art robots. Robot K456 with 20-Channel Radio Control and 10-Channel Data Recorder, 1965, was an<br \/>anthropomorphic automaton whose aluminium skeleton was fancifully decorated with a pair of sponge-rubber falsies, suggesting a gendered humanity.&#8221;[1] <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The robot was purpose-built for street actions, in which it was supposed to mingle \u2013 more or less inconspicuously \u2013 with bypassers, as Paik recounts: &#8216;I imagined it would meet people on the street and give them a split-second surprise. Like a sudden shower.'&#8221;[2]<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In 1971, on the occasion of Paik\u2019s retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art, Robot K456, which by then had entered the museum\u2019s collection, enacted a memorable work of performance art.Strolling down Madison Avenue before an eager audience, the robot was broadsided by a taxi-cab, a staged event Paik referred to as The First Accident of the 21st Century.&#8221;[1]<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/bild-32.jpg\" alt=\"Robot K456\" title=\"Robot K456\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/bild-33.jpg\" alt=\"k456\" title=\"k456\" width=\"238\" height=\"320\" \/><\/p>\n<p>[<em>img src:http:\/\/www.medienkunstnetz.de\/works\/robot-k-456\/<\/em> ]<\/p>\n<p>\n[1] Edward A. Shanken, <em>Art and Eelectronic Media<\/em>, p.38\n<\/p>\n<p>[2] <a href=\"http:\/\/www.accessproject.net\/\"><\/a>http:\/\/www.medienkunstnetz.de\/works\/robot-k-456\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":7669,"template":"","artist":[82,174],"streams":[11],"keywords":[],"decade":[5540],"media":[5547,5550,5548],"class_list":["post-149","artwork","type-artwork","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","artist-nam-june-paik","artist-shuya-abe","streams-networks-surveillance-culture-jamming","decade-1960s","media-image","media-installation","media-text"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artwork\/149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artwork"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/artwork"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artwork\/149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7683,"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artwork\/149\/revisions\/7683"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=149"},{"taxonomy":"streams","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/streams?post=149"},{"taxonomy":"keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/keywords?post=149"},{"taxonomy":"decade","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/decade?post=149"},{"taxonomy":"media","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?post=149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}