A TV Buddha sculpture

TV Buddha is a video sculpture by Nam June Paik first produced in 1974.[1][2] In the work, a Buddha statue watches an image of itself on a TV screen. The screen's image is produced by a live video camera trained on the Buddha statue.[3][4][5]

The work was produced to fill a gap in a 1974 exhibition at gallery Bonino, New York.[6][7] Paik had purchased an 18th-century Buddha statue on Canal street in New York City.[8]

Collections

The work was first purchased for a museum collection in 1977 by the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam.[9][10] Paik produced successive versions of the work. A 1976 version of the work is in the collection of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Australia.[11] A 2004 version is held by the Fogg museum at Harvard University.[12]

References

  1. ↑ Hope, Cat; Ryan, John Charles (June 19, 2014). Digital Arts: An Introduction to New Media. Bloomsbury Publishing USA. ISBN 9781780933207 – via Google Books.
  2. ↑ Howell, John (March 22, 1991). Breakthroughs: avant-garde artists in Europe and America, 1950-1990. Rizzoli. ISBN 9780847813650 – via Google Books.
  3. ↑ Baas, Jacquelynn (March 22, 2005). Smile of the Buddha: Eastern Philosophy and Western Art from Monet to Today. University of California Press. ISBN 9780520242081 – via Google Books.
  4. ↑ Stooss, Toni; Kellein, Thomas (March 22, 1993). Nam June Paik: Video Time, Video Space. Australian Council for Educational Leaders. ISBN 9780810937291 – via Google Books.
  5. ↑ "Art and AsiaPacific Quarterly Journal". Fine Arts Press. March 22, 2001 – via Google Books.
  6. ↑ https://pure.uva.nl/ws/files/2304780/146726_13.pdf
  7. ↑ Net, Media Art (March 22, 2020). "Media Art Net | Paik, Nam June: TV-Buddha". www.medienkunstnetz.de.
  8. ↑ "Nam June Paik and his video art predicted the tensions of the digital age - Icon Magazine". iconeye.
  9. ↑ Garoian, Charles R.; Gaudelius, Yvonne M. (March 13, 2008). Spectacle Pedagogy: Art, Politics, and Visual Culture. SUNY Press. ISBN 9780791473863 – via Google Books.
  10. ↑ Hölling, Hanna (February 21, 2017). Paik's Virtual Archive: Time, Change, and Materiality in Media Art. Univ of California Press. ISBN 9780520288904 – via Google Books.
  11. ↑ "TV Buddha, (1976) by Nam June Paik". www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au.
  12. ↑ "From the Harvard Art Museums' collections TV Buddha (Bronze Seated Buddha)". www.harvardartmuseums.org.
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