TV Buddha
TV Buddha is an enigmatic work by Nam June Paik which consists of a Buddha statue gazing on a video screen, to his own image, being projected there by a closed circuit video camera, together with the images of the viewer of the artwork and the passers by. Paik has managed to create an infinite loop, where he also challenges the role of technology!
"It is the historical necessity, if there is a historical necessity in history, that a new decade of electronic television should follow from the past decade of electronic music."
Nam June Paik
TV Buddha

TV Buddha, 1974 - Closed Circuit video installation with bronze sculpture
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"I used the term information superhighway in a study I wrote for the Rockefeller Foundation in 1974. I thought: if you create a highway, then people are going to invent cars. That's dialectics. If you create electronic highways, something has to hap...
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Nam June Paik (July 20, 1932 - January 29, 2006) was a Korean-born American artist. He worked with a variety of media and is considered to be the first video artist.Noah Wardrip-Fruin and Nick Montfort, The New Media Reader, MIT Press, 2003, p227. ISBN 0262232278 He may have been the author of the phrase "Information Superhighway", which, according to his own account, he used in a Rockefeller Foundation paper in 1974[http://netart.incubadora.fapesp.br/portal/midias/paik.htm].
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