Candle TV
Date/ 1975/1999
Artist(Credit Line)/ Nam June Paik
Classification/ Installation
- I Wrote it in Tokyo in 1954
- Beuys Vox
- Magnet TV
- Nixon TV
- TV Crown
- Swiss Clock
- Participation TV
- TV Garden
- TV Fish (Video Fish)
- TV Buddha
- TV Clock
- Moon is the Oldest TV
- Candle TV
- Real Fish/Live Fish
- Three Elements :Square
- Three Elements : Triangle
- Three Elements : Circle
- Elephant Cart
- Think Loud
- Piano & Letters
- Rabbit inhabits the moon
- Ideas You Believe are Absurd Ultimately Lead to Success
- Eclipse
- No.1 Video Chandelier
- Transmission Tower
Dimensions / 34×36×41cm
Medium / Candle, TV case
A single lit candle stands inside the shell of a vintage TV. Light represents the beginning of human civilization. Paik once said that a light source is like a piece of information. In this work, he considered television the beginning of a new type of civilization.
Medium / Candle, TV case
A single lit candle stands inside the shell of a vintage TV. Light represents the beginning of human civilization. Paik once said that a light source is like a piece of information. In this work, he considered television the beginning of a new type of civilization.
