Where did you find Virilio discussing TV Buddha? I've been scouring everywhere for interpretations of this piece and this dual couch potato/media star interpretation is a first (and an intriguing line of thought). Thanks
That was just me pretended to read TV Buddha through couch potato. He never talks about it fully but he does in Open Sky talk about the character who has reality brought to him via screens and stuff. I was doing a riff haha.
@@infinitelibrarypod it's an excellent riff and I definitely think it's more along the lines of what Paik might have been going for (whether or not that matter is a different question). I don't think any of the Buddhist or "deep", "spiritual" readings of it work. I came across a very interesting detail that might be of interest to you in Techno Orientalism (2015): "Paik needed to fill an empty wall at an exhibition at New York’s Gallery Bonino in 1974. In order to do so, he set up a TV with a closed-circuit camera behind it and placed a statue of a monk **(he apparently thought the statue, which he purchased as an investment, was that of a Buddha)** opposite the TV so that the statue is facing its own image displayed on the screen." (212, "A Poor Man from a Poor Country" So APPARENTLY, the original statue wasn't even of Buddha, and he didn't know that it wasn't of Buddha, or he did, but that was a flavor he wanted to throw in. I'm not sure, and there's not citation to this in the article (I'm in the midst of trying to find out more). Regardless, it brings up a lot of interesting questions about how to interpret this residually Asian work in a full blown western environment. Anyway, I'm making my own video essay on Techno Orientalism on a different channel and Paik is going to feature in a chapter preemptively named "How Buddha Became Narcissus", your reading was very helpful so thanks again and I'll be sure to cite you!
@@esattunagur3540 wow i didn't know that! that's kinda crazy it was just a monk statue originally. also thanks so much. i'm glad you enjoyed it and it was useful to you. definitely subbing your channel!
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Thanks man! Made it for a class thought I’d upload it here.
@@infinitelibrarypod Thank a lot! Your analysis about the TV Buddha is really inspiring.
Where did you find Virilio discussing TV Buddha? I've been scouring everywhere for interpretations of this piece and this dual couch potato/media star interpretation is a first (and an intriguing line of thought). Thanks
That was just me pretended to read TV Buddha through couch potato. He never talks about it fully but he does in Open Sky talk about the character who has reality brought to him via screens and stuff. I was doing a riff haha.
@@infinitelibrarypod it's an excellent riff and I definitely think it's more along the lines of what Paik might have been going for (whether or not that matter is a different question). I don't think any of the Buddhist or "deep", "spiritual" readings of it work.
I came across a very interesting detail that might be of interest to you in Techno Orientalism (2015):
"Paik needed to fill an empty wall at an exhibition at New York’s Gallery Bonino in 1974. In order to do so, he set up a TV with a closed-circuit
camera behind it and placed a statue of a monk **(he apparently thought the statue, which he purchased as an investment, was that of a Buddha)** opposite
the TV so that the statue is facing its own image displayed on the screen." (212, "A Poor Man from a Poor Country"
So APPARENTLY, the original statue wasn't even of Buddha, and he didn't know that it wasn't of Buddha, or he did, but that was a flavor he wanted to throw in. I'm not sure, and there's not citation to this in the article (I'm in the midst of trying to find out more). Regardless, it brings up a lot of interesting questions about how to interpret this residually Asian work in a full blown western environment.
Anyway, I'm making my own video essay on Techno Orientalism on a different channel and Paik is going to feature in a chapter preemptively named "How Buddha Became Narcissus", your reading was very helpful so thanks again and I'll be sure to cite you!
@@esattunagur3540 wow i didn't know that! that's kinda crazy it was just a monk statue originally. also thanks so much. i'm glad you enjoyed it and it was useful to you. definitely subbing your channel!
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