I was inspired to research Nam June Paik for my installation after happening upon him and immediately feeling ashamed and embarrassed that i hadnt heard of him before. He is the father of video art, which makes me his daughter. I was overwhelmed by the amount of work he did in his lifetime and had a difficult time choosing which pieces to focus on.
My reading of his work is that his use of the television in physical sculpture opened a sort of third space between the digital and the physical. Between the past and the present, tradition and avant-garde, viewer and the object, east and west.
The Buddha caught in an infinite feedback loop with the Buddha. Stuck in the in-between space. Paik himself occupied this space, far from home, between artistic mediums.
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