This digital interactive provides two paths to explore Nam June Paik’s Zen for Film. The first, Zen for Film, highlights a selected history of the artwork’s presentation and documentation and provides information on the artist and Fluxus. The second, Related Works, explores a number of artworks that can be viewed as potential inspirations, antecedents, and contemporaries. The artworks are linked and can be filtered by conceptual associations——boredom, chance, materiality, nothingness, silence, time, trace——that correspond to the viewers’ experience of Zen for Film. Each path offers the user a choice of images. Click on an image and the artwork will appear in a larger scale along with its related interpretive text. Use the “return” button on the upper left of the screen to go back one level.

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