"As you look down rows of [TV Chairs]...you wonder if Paik is really saying “Television is not life"– or only offering traditionalists a diplomatic way out. The irony that allows Pop art to be read as a celebration or a castigation of consumerism, or both, operates effectively for Paik. By playing TV overload to the hilt, he creates a visual orgy that can be perceived as a saturated essence of electronic art or a stinging criticism on the vulgarity of life with the tube." —Suzanne Muchnic, LATimes, 1988