One of Nam June Paik’s most iconic works, TV Buddha expresses the contrasts and parallels between East and West and between technology and spirituality in a very simple and direct way. A CCTV camera films a Buddha statue, which Paik bought from an antique store. Its static, silent image appears live on a round TV set, inspired by popular sci-fi imagery. Here the Buddha is both the viewer and the viewed image, mirroring our own experience as mass media consumers.
Nam June Paik
Director
Videodrome72%
The Truman Show81%
My Dinner with Hervé63%
Only God Forgives58%
Little Buddha62%
Wicked Minds63%
Everybody’s Everything84%
The Beaver63%
A Ghost Story70%
The Impossible73%
The Eyes of Tammy Faye64%
An Adventure in Space and Time76%
Paranormal Activity60%
Red Lights61%
Thirteen Lives78%
The Zero Theorem60%
Kundun67%
The Tree of Life67%
I'm Thinking of Ending Things65%
Here64%
