Artist Yeondoo Jung’s media artworks somehow evoke such childhood memories. Jung, who crosses the boundary between fiction and reality, works with photography, video, and performance. In his works, the fictitious nature of the depicted scenes is obvious, but they somehow inspire the viewer’s imagination.
The dentity, initial artist list, dates, and new team members for the 12th edition of the Seoul Mediacity Biennale have been announced. Entitled THIS TOO, IS A MAP, the Biennale will be open to the public at the Seoul Museum of Art and throughout the city of Seoul from September 21 to November 19, 2023.
The Gold Award in the “Media 'Art” category of the Hong Kong Arts Center’s ifva Awards went to the artist Beak Jungki, and one of the two Special Mentions went to Chanwook Min.
MMCA, Cheongju
The National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Cheongju has built large-scale digital signage ‘Media Canvas’ on its exterior wall and has been officially operating since February 23.
Digital signage or media facades, which were introduced in Korea in the early 2000s, have recently been activated as effective exhibition spaces in the non-face-to-face era by broadcasting artworks on the exterior walls of buildings. The ‘Media Canvas’ curved digital signage at Cheongju Museum, is also based on this medium and is an open exhibition platform that highlights the role and symbolism of the art collection center as the ‘First storage museum in Korea’
As the first public exhibition of ‘Media Canvas,’ two works from the collection and two new works by media artist Je Baak will be presented sequentially. The museum also plans to operate ‘Media Canvas’ as an experimental medium for creators. It plans to expand the range of artwork experiences by creating collection-based content, collaborating with domestic and international artists using ChatGPT AI technology, and creating participatory works that can communicate with citizens.
MMCA, Cheongju: 314, Sangdang-ro, Cheongwon-gu, Cheongju-si, Chungcheongbuk-do, Republic of Korea
ARTFORUM RHEE
Hyundai FutureNet, an ICT company affiliated with the Hyundai Department Store Group, signed a business agreement with the Korea Mecenat Association and Alternative Space ARTFORUM RHEE on the 27th of last month to revitalize the media art industry. Under the agreement, Hyundai FutureNet and the art organization Alternative Space ARTFORUM RHEE will carry out the ‘Hyundai FutureNet Media Art Project’ as part of the ‘Arts & Business’ collaboration project organized by the Korea Mecenat Association.
The Hyundai FutureNet Media Art Project is a program for discovering and supporting the creative activities of budding artists in the field of media art in Korea, providing them with production costs and creative support, as well as opportunities to broadcast their works using Hyundai FutureNet’s media platforms.
To this end, H/ART AVENEW, a media artist competition, will be held from March 6 to April 23. The theme of the competition is video works with ESG messages such as sustainable earth, animal welfare, and recycling.
Lee Ungno Museum
Daejeon Goam Art & Culture Foundation Lee Ungno Museum has selected six artists for the 7th ‘Young Artist Project Art Lab Daejeon’ selected artists are Kim Deulim, Kim Youngjin, Kim Chaewon, Park Yonghwa, Yang Seungwon, and Yang Taehoon, all from Daejeon or currently live in Daejeon.
The artists will showcase their experimental works across the visual arts at Lee Ungno Museum’s M2 Project Room and idle space. The M2 Project Room exhibition will run from May to September, and the idle space exhibition will run from September to October. In addition, the artists will receive a small amount of creative support cost, publicity, and exhibition space.
Lee Ungno Museum’s Art Lab Daejeon is a project to support young artists from Daejeon that began in 2017 and continues to discover and support artists who are active in the visual arts field. In 2022, ‘Art Lab Daejeon France’ was held in Nantes, France, and Lee Ungno Residence was established in Paris to help artists advance overseas.
Lee Ungno Museum: 157, Dunsan-daero, Seo-gu, Daejeon, Republic of Korea
The Reference
From March 15 to April 16, The Reference will present a series of works that embody the manifesto and practice of the “One Picture Manifesto”. The manifesto “One picture is a work of art” by participating artists and researchers Maija Tammi and Harri Pälviranta is taken as a guideline.
The “One Picture Manifesto” draws attention to the significance of ‘One picture’. The exhibition invites the viewer to recognize a single photograph as a work of art and to greet it with its completeness. One picture is all that is needed. It suggests, reacts, responds, and opens up new avenues of thought. Only one photographic work by each artist is presented, with no description or related works.
The exhibition debuted in September 2019 at the Finnish Museum of Photography in Helsinki, Finland. Since then, it has traveled to Italy and Japan, showing a gradually expanding format, adding only one work by an artist from each location. In Korea, works by Seoul and London-based photographer Seungwon Jung have been added.
“One Picture Manifesto”
3.15–4.16, 2023
The Reference: 44, Jahamun-ro 24-gil, Jongno-gu, Seoul
ARTSPACE BOAN
How does art challenge the conundrum of the relativity of time? What is the relationship between human and machine time, artist and performer time, and artwork and audience time? “PLAY, PAUSE, REPEAT” is a project by three artists, Joowon Song, Yanghee Lee, and Eun Chun, that explores the relationship between humans, machines, and time, and will run from March 11 to April 2 at the BOAN 1942.
Joowon Song is a choreographer and experimental documentary filmmaker. Based on contemporary dance, he focuses on urban places that accumulate time and questions the life of the body projected onto space.
Yanghee Lee is an artist based in Seoul and New York who continues to critically explore the forms and properties of dance, its intangibles and archetypes.
Eun Chun (b. 1977)’s photographs captured time. There is a long accumulation of time that seems to be an object of focus, but is difficult to grasp. In other words, it is not the object that is in focus, but the space in which time is imaged.
“PLAY, PAUSE, REPEAT”
3.11–4.2, 2023
ART SPACE BOAN 2, 3: 33 Hyojaro, Jongrogu, Seoul
Amado Art Space/Lab
Amado Art Space/Lab was founded by professionals in the field of art criticism and curation to promote the revitalization of art discourse and criticism. It conducts various projects and programs such as exhibitions, screenings, performances, lectures, and workshops. It organizes the Amado Exhibition Award, a competition for exhibition proposals.
This year, the 10th Amado Exhibition Award was won by curator Kim Malgeum for “Window Reconstruction,” which will hold at Amado Art Space/Lab from March 10 to April 6. The six artists participating in the exhibition are Eunhee Kang, Ki Yelim, Melanie Bonajo, Yena Park, Seo Young Chang, and Cho Hyori.
Media and new technologies are emerging faster, and human history has been based on this. Humans have upgraded their cognitive systems to keep up with advances in hardware and software. The bugs that appeared during this progression may have been very short-lived due to the rapid pace of development, but they were fundamentally against themselves. The exhibition looks back at the passage of time, the moment when the media rebelled against itself.
The 10th Amado Exhibition Award: “Windows Reconstruction”
3.10–4.6, 2023
Amado Art Space/Lab: 8, Itaewon-ro 54-gil, Yongsan-gu, Seoul
