Robots, videos and a TV garden: The art of Nam June Paik at the National Gallery

SINGAPORE - Video art pioneer Nam June Paik was so fascinated by television sets that he created a garden of cathode-ray tube TVs in the 1970s. He also constructed large, human-like robots, using TVs as building blocks.

The Korean-born artist, who bridged Eastern and Western cultures through his work, is considered to be a visionary who predicted aspects of the Internet age, like teleconferencing,and blurred the lines between technology and art.