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Something Pacific: detail: student/performance artist impersonating bronze buddha contemplates a television in a parody "Something Pacific"

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Title: Something Pacific: detail: student/performance artist impersonating bronze buddha contemplates a television in a parody "Something Pacific"
Creator: Stuart Collection (San Diego, Calif.)
Paik, Nam June (South Korean sculptor, video artist, and performance artist, 1932-2006)
Rittermann, Philipp Scholz (American photographer, 1955 CE-)
Contributor: Beebe, Mary Livingstone (American, born 1940)
Date Created and/or Issued: 1986
Contributing Institution: UC San Diego, The UC San Diego Library
Collection: Stuart Collection Photographs
Rights Information: Under copyright
Constraint(s) on Use: This work is protected by the U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.). Use of this work beyond that allowed by "fair use" requires written permission of the UC Regents. Responsibility for obtaining permissions and any use and distribution of this work rests exclusively with the user and not the UC San Diego Library. Inquiries can be made to the UC San Diego Library program having custody of the work.
Use: This work is available from the UC San Diego Library. This digital copy of the work is intended to support research, teaching, and private study.
Rights Holder and Contact: Rittermann, Philipp Scholz (American photographer, 1955 CE-)
Description: Science, Technology and Industry
Sculpture and Installations
Film, Audio, Video and Digital Art
Paik's Something Pacific for the Stuart Collection was his first permanent outdoor installation. This work relates specifically to its site, which includes the lobby of the university's Media Center as well as the lawns surrounding the building. Outdoors, the work features several ruined televisions embedded in the landscape; some are paired with Buddhas, and one, a tiny Sony Watchman, is topped by a miniature reproduction of Rodin's Thinker. In striking contrast to this video graveyard, the lobby of the Media Center houses one of Paik's lively interactive banks of TV monitors. By means of a control panel, viewers are able to manipulate sequences of Paik's own tapes and broadcast MTV.
UC San Diego Library, UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0175 (https://library.ucsd.edu/dc/contact)
Media Center: University of California, San Diego; La Jolla, California, United States
Type: image
Format: Junked television sets; bronze (metal); cosmetics
Form/Genre: Buddhas
site-specific works
bronzes (objects)
Conceptual
lawns (landscaped grass)
environmental art
television receivers
public sculpture
public art
sculpture gardens
outdoor sculpture
landscape architecture
Identifier: ark:/20775/bb9660365r
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Buddhism
Humor
Copies (derivative objects)
Technology
Korean
Meditation
Space (composition concept)
Rubbish
Product obsolescence
Religions (concept)
Graveyards
Landscapes (environments)
Mass media
Deterioration
Nature
Ruins
Contemporary
University of California, San Diego--History
Buddhas
Site-specific works
Bronzes (objects)
Conceptual
Lawns (landscaped grass)
Environmental art
Television receivers
Public sculpture
Public art
Sculpture gardens
Outdoor sculpture
Landscape architecture
Pacific Ocean
Place: Pacific Ocean

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