Nam June Paik TV Buddha

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TV Buddha

Nam June Paik TV Buddha, 1974-82

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."

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TV Buddha, 1974 - Closed Circuit video installation with bronze sculpture
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... by avant-garde artist Nam June Paik. Just in case anyone thought they were in for some amusing titillation, Paik issued a strident manifesto in advance. ...
Center Gives Awards to Honor Paik’s Legacy
By Cathy Rose A. Garcia To honor the legacy of video art pioneer Paik Nam June, the inaugural Nam June Paik Art Center Prize was given to artists Ahn Eun-me ...
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It's taken for granted that a work by the great Nam June Paik appeals more to the inner cerebral track than the eye, unless you a have a Lou Reed?like thing ...
Chinese Buyers Waving Paddles Push Art to Records in Hong Kong
A nearly 3-meter- tall mixed-media installation by Korean artist Nam June Paik, ?Alexander the Great,? sold for HK$2.66 million.

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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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