TV Buddha

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]

A TV Buddha sculpture

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]

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References
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  2. Howell, John; Arts, Wexner Center for the Visual (March 22, 1991). "Breakthroughs: avant-garde artists in Europe and America, 1950-1990". Rizzoli – 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 – via Google Books.
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  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.
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  10. Hölling, Hanna (February 21, 2017). "Paik's Virtual Archive: Time, Change, and Materiality in Media Art". Univ of California Press – 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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