During his lifetime, Nam June Paik reinvented his “TV Buddha” sculpture many times to reflect the era. He often used the television as a fetish symbol representative of society and its relationship with technology. The television in “TV Buddha” (1974) suggests that those who are watching it are simply watching themselves. But what makes Paik’s work more fascinating and timeless is that instead of simply critiquing the television, his sculpture suggests there is a strange Zen awareness or energy that is part of the technology.
In 1994, Paik’s ”TV Buddha Re-Incarnated” the Buddha sculpture is slowly disappearing to make room for more circuitry and gadgets. The original simplicity of “TV Buddha” has become a complicated thing. By 1997, his “Buddha Watching TV” takes away his body until it is simply a stone head planted on a mound of soil.
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