TV Buddha

Nam June Paik's 'TV Buddha' (1974) is a video installation in which an 18th-century bronze Buddha statue sits facing a closed-circuit video camera that is itself relayed to a television set before it, so that the Buddha contemplates the image of his own contemplation. One of the founding works of video art, it condenses Paik's lifelong dialogue between Zen meditation and electronic media. Editions exist worldwide; the Nam June Paik Art Center in Yongin, Korea, holds the artist's own archival version as a permanent display.

Exhibition Venue

Nam June Paik Art Center

Yongin, South Korea

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