Marching Cubes TV Bhudda
3D printed polylactic acid (PLA), neodymium magnets, cold-rolled steel plate, TV, camera.
Part of 25 Years at the Beall Center for Art + Technology, October 26 – December 28, 2025
From the curator:
“[Jackson’s] ongoing project Marching Cubes (2016—present) is based on a digital technique developed in the 1980s by General Electric that turns medical scans into 3D images using a grid of tiny cubes. Jackson transforms this invisible process into something you can see and touch: 3D-printed building blocks that “act out” how a computer constructs forms.
Exhibited here, Marching Cubes TV Buddha, builds from one of pioneering Korean artist Nam June Paik’s most famous works, TV Buddha, in which a Buddha statue watches an image of itself on a TV screen. Paik’s work was the subject of a Beall Center exhibition in 2009. Here, Jackson appropriates it as a meditation on technology and how we experience the world in the digital age.”
