Me or, 6D 65

Me, or 6D 65 reinterprets Nam June Paik’s TV Buddha (1974) for the digital age,replacing the analogue camera and monitor with a digital camera and a raw data visualisation. Where Paik’s Buddha confronts its mediated image, this work exposes the ontological rupture of digital mediation: the Buddha gazes not at a reflection but at the encoded data that constitutes its digital existence.The installation critiques how digital technologies reduce reality to quantifiable abstractions, severing the phenomenological connection between selfand image. By revealing the logico-quantitative underpinnings of digital representation, Me, or 6D 65 invites reflection on the true causes of alienation in-herent in our increasingly data-driven world.

Displayed at Palazzo Madama Museum, Turin, Italy