Tele-kiss. Nam-June Paik’s expanded media in the light of Zen Buddhism

• Authors: Kamil Lipiński

Title variants

PL

Tele-kiss. Nam-June Paik’s expanded media in the light of Zen Buddhism

• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

PL

The article offers a broad overview of Nam-June Paik’s ideas of the expansion of video arts interpreted in the light of Zen Buddhism. His works recognized as the most significant examples of his marriage between the art theory and practice are marked by a thought-provoking vision of participatory culture, communicated in-between the networks in the post-industrial society. Our purpose is to reexamine his attitude to TV culture in the oscillation between Western and Eastern gaze considered in connection to the problems of emptiness and meditation drawn from Zen religious beliefs. In discussing his installations there is special stress to reconstruct his inner-insight into the subject of seeing and watching inscribed in a closed-circuit of the communication network.

Keywords

EN

Zen Buddhism; participatory culture; TV culture; postindustrial society; meditation; emptiness; Zen Buddhism; participatory culture; TV culture; postindustrial society; meditation; emptiness

PL

Zen Buddhism; participatory culture; TV culture; postindustrial society; meditation; emptiness

• Publisher: Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu
• Journal: Images. The International Journal of European Film, Performing Arts and Audiovisual Communication
• Year: 2020
• Volume: 28
• Issue: 37
• Pages: 308-316

Dates

published

2021-03-31

Contributors

author

Kamil Lipiński

• Uniwersytet w Białymstoku

• https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5109-3698

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Identifiers

DOI

10.14746/i.2020.37.17