Rationale
My original intention for looking at Nam June Paik was due to his use of religious iconography, his connection to it. I was also interested in the use of that iconography not being a comment about the theological backgrounds of that belief, but instead being an analogue for his own culture and the connection to western culture.
My original intention for looking at Nam June Paik was due to his use of religious iconography, his connection to it. I was also interested in the use of that iconography not being a comment about the theological backgrounds of that belief, but instead being an analogue for his own culture and the connection to western culture.
Nam June Paik - TV Buddha
“Paik’s possibly most famous video work was produced as a gap-filler for an empty wall in his fourth show in the Galeria Bonino, New York. Shortly before the opening, he hit upon the idea of making a TV viewer out of an antique Buddha statue once purchased as an investment. The subsequent addition of a video camera meant the Buddha now watched his videotaped image on the screen opposite – past and present gaze upon each other in an encounter between Oriental deity and Western media.
During the ‘Projekt '74’ exhibition in Cologne, Paik took the Buddha’s place in his recent creation, suggesting the implicit antithesis between transcendentalism and technology was equally present in his own personality.”
Nam June Paik (July 20, 1932 – January 29, 2006) was a Korean American artist. He worked with a variety of media and is considered to be the founder of video art.
Source:https://www.tumblr.com/search/tv-buddha
Source:http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/works/tv-buddha/
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