Features 2023 WINTER
Technology – A Value for Humans Digital content brings imagination to life, offering inspiration and wonder. Against this backdrop, a growing number of Korean companies are attracting attention by enriching the arts with their technological prowess. The Meta Music System, an AI-based mobile application, was developed by the music-tech startup Verses and honored with the CES 2023 Best of Innovation award. The app has changed the paradigm of enjoying music by enabling users in the metaverse to participate in the music of their favorite musicians. © Verses#Features
Features 2023 WINTER
Collaborative Energy Boosts Tech Art Visual arts teams are breaking down barriers between genres and exploring new art forms. These avant-garde artists present new sensations and ways of thinking through the use of advanced technology.#Features
Features 2023 WINTER
Businesses Join Hands with the Art World Lately, there has been a remarkable increase in support for Korean artists from tech giants and other companies. These collaborations are part of their corporate philosophies, aimed at enhancing the value of their respective brands. The newfound partnerships make it easier for artists to express their imagination and allow people to enrich their everyday lives with innovative art experiences. A Guest in Paradise. Jeon Byeong Sam. 2023. Projection mapping on a concentric layer of photographs. Diameter: 300 cm. This work, exhibited at the 2023 Paradise Art Lab Festival, depicts an alien microorganism enlarged three billion times to a diameter of about three meters. The Paradise Art Lab is a project organized by the Paradise Cultural Foundation to spotlight works that fuse art and technology. © Paradise Cultural Foundation#Features
Features 2023 WINTER
Technology Reconfigures Plastic Art Technology has taken on a central role in the visual arts, not only reshaping artistic forms and content but also redefining the meaning of art itself. In today’s digital ecosystem, this is seen in the evolution of plastic arts, which involve the manipulation of material for paintings, sculptures, and handicrafts. A view of Jackson Hong’s solo exhibition Autopilot, held in 2016 at the Perigee Gallery in Seoul’s Seocho District. Blurring the boundaries between design and fine art, Hong’s creations aim at eliciting social, political, and economic interpretations. © Jackson Hong#Features
Features 2023 WINTER
Pioneers Who Shaped the Media Art Scene In the past, media art was a largely unfamiliar genre on the periphery of the Korean art world. Today, it takes center stage of the mainstream arts and culture scene, as innovators employ cutting-edge technology to explore its potential to understand the world through a different lens. Delivery Dancer’s Sphere. Ayoung Kim. 2022. Single-channel video. 25 minutes. The video is about a parcel delivery employee who meets a version of herself. Ayoung Kim is a media artist who uses video, VR, and performance art, to create works that focus on migration, refugees, and the contradictions of capitalism. © Ayoung Kim#Features
Features 2023 AUTUMN
Young Shop Owners Revitalize Market More and more young people open their own stores or take over their family’s businesses in traditional markets. This new generation of shop owners is elevating the markets’ competitiveness by using online platforms and offering both time-honored and new goods that combine high quality and attractive design. The 1913 Songjeong Station Market in the southwestern city of Gwangju, boasts a 110-year history. It underwent a major facelift in the mid-2010s. The renovation, a joint project of the local government, Hyundai Card, and Philobiblon Associates, has succeeded in attracting young merchants. © Hyundai Card, Philobiblon Associates#Young Shop Owners