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"A new type of artist, somewhere in-between high art and light entertainment." -- Wulf Herzogenrath
-- Name June Paik's TV Buddha was created with the strange twist of television technology combined with the ancient statue of the symbol of Asian Buddhism. The Buddha sits in front of a television set and contemplates its own image. The question of origin
-- The Buddha, who traditionally wishes to keep himself free of all external matters, now sits in deep contemplation confronted by his own image via closed-circuit television. Paik's Eastern and Western sides, his Asian roots and his Western flair for tec
-- (Edith Decker) The buddha, who wishes to keep himself free of all external impressions in mystic contemplation, now sits confronted by his own image, but it is not reversed, as in a mirror image. TV Buddha represents a superficialization of the princi
