THE 3RD VH AWARD
FINALISTS
FINALISTS
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GRAND PRIX
DONGJOO SEO, A Thousand HorizonsA Thousand Horizons combines CG and the repetitive page-turning of a book, captured through an unfamiliar perspective. Through the constantly expanding and changing horizontal landscape of the symbolic time of ‘day’, it explores the digital and analog media’s temporal, spatial, and material properties, metaphorizing human reason, action, and interaction. It casts questions into the being between macro – micro, external – internal, conceptual – abstract, real – fantasy, nature – artificial, body – mind, captivating visitors into a synesthetic experience. -
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YOUNGKAK CHO, Highway like A Shooting StarHighway like a Shooting Star explores the idea of roads as witnesses to civilizations, and the most innate of human systems. The artist presented an AI machine-learning algorithm with diverse depictions of roads, which in turn created a work completed it via intervention of the other, sans a human emotive presence. By hypothesizing the process and outcome where machines or technological systems become leading bodies in a future society, the artist beckons visitors to consider what roles and significance human beings will embody in this not-so distant future. -
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CHANSOOK CHOI, Black AirBlack Air deals with the human dichotomy in engaging with the land that we occupy, and the critical responses to them. The human need for development, driven by modern rationalism, creates an austere dichotomy with rigid boundaries and stratification to everything. The others in that dichotomy are unable to own land, and become border-crossing nomadic beings. Through such an approach, the artwork redefines the earth as a subject of connected empathy, as well as the founding platform of humanity, and not so much an object of possession.
SCREENING EVENT
JURY
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DR. BERNHARD SEREXHE
Art historian, author, independent international curator, certified expert for electronic and digital art, Karlsruhe, Germany
2016-19 ongoing international exhibitions on GLOBAL CONTROL AND CENSORSHIP, consulting and expertise on the preservation of digital media art, since 2016 independent curator and certified expert for electronic and digital art; lecturer for the conservation and curation of media art at the University of Berne, Switzerland; since 2016 independent curator and certified expert for electronic and digital art; lecturer for the conservation and curation of media art at the University of Berne, Switzerland; 2006-16 chief curator of ZKM | Media Museum Karlsruhe, Ph. D. on the Cathedral Saint-Lazare in Autun, Burgundy (France), consultant for the Council of Europe, 1994 – 97 curator of ZKM | Media Museum, 1998-05 head of ZKM | Museum Communications, since 1998 lecturer media art and museology at the State Academy of Fine Arts St. Petersburg and the Universities of Berne, Basel and Karlsruhe, 2008-12 professor for aesthetics and media theory at Istanbul BILGI-University, since 2010 director of the EU Research Project www.digitalartconservation.org.
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DOOEUN CHOI
Independent Curator, New York, USA
DooEun Choi is currently serving as co-curator of Aurora 2018, the light, video, and sound festival in Dallas, Texas. Choi’s recent projects include Uncanny Valley?, Da Vinci Creative 2017 at the Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture; Han Youngsoo: Photographs of Seoul 1956–1963 at the International Center of Photography at MANA, New York (2017); Why Future Still Needs Us: AI and Humanity at Art Center Nabi and QUT Art Museum in Brisbane (2016–17); Automata, The International Digital Arts Biennial, at Arsenal Montreal (2016); Sense Of Wonder, Da Vinci Creative 2015, at the Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture; Boundless Fantasy: Media Art from East Asia at the Charles Wang Center, New York (2014); Anima, on the work of Choe U-ram, at Borusan Contemporary, Istanbul (2013); Spell On You, Mediacity Seoul 2012 Biennale, at the Seoul Museum of Art; and Seeking Silicon Valley, ZERO1 Biennial 2012, at Zero1 Garage in San Jose, California.
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MARTIN HONZIK
Senior Director of Ars Electronica Festival, Linz, Austria
Martin Honzik is an artist and director of Ars Electronica’s Festival, Prix and Exhibitions divisions. He studied visual experimental design at Linz Art University (graduated in 2001) and completed the master’s program in culture & media management at the University of Linz and ICCM Salzburg (graduated in 2003). From 1998 to 2001, he was a member of the production team at the OK Center of Contemporary Art. In 2001, he joined the staff of the Ars Electronica Future Lab, where, until 2005, his responsibilities included exhibition design, art in architecture, interface design, event design and project management. Since 2006, Martin Honzik has been director of the Ars Electronica Festival and the Prix Ars Electronica and in charge of the exhibitions in the Ars Electronica Center as well as Ars Electronica’s international exhibition projects. His recent achievements in addition to numerous art projects (e.g. Ganz Linz, Vernichtungsaktion), include co-founding the u19 – CREATE YOUR WORLD festival for young people and serving as head of production and director of the 2012 Voestalpine Klangwolke.
THE 2ND AWARD (5th ENG)
THE 2ND VH AWARD
FINALISTS
FINALISTS
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GRAND PRIX
HYUNGKYU KIM, Hear the Wind_Across the Border‘360 degree view through media’ extends the viewer’s role from passive recipient to neutral onlooker or even to an active observer. Viewers confront a 360 degree sight of landscapes looked through the perspectives from Imjingak; Yeonmijeong in Ganghwado; Yongsan redevelopment area; and the site of the Admiral and the historical statue of Soonshin Lee in Gwanghwamun, Seoul, Korea. The artist throws in an underlying question to the viewers who became the independent observer on visually opposed ‘South and North’ ‘Generations’ and ‘Individuals and Groups’. -
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HWAYONG JUNG, MantraBody language and sound generated from digital object and human are permeated into the digital scenario, and gives birth to the new cycle of synthetic beauty. A traditional dance called Seungmu, which performs a human desire to overcome his suffering, presents dynamic and yet delicate movements, and its encounter with computer codes creates randomly but meticulously calculated images – a beauty created by human and images made by machine. Inside of endless communication between them, a new experiential form of vision and sound will be developed and provided. -
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SUNGROK CHOI, Stroll, Scroll and SightStroll, Scroll and Sight narrates a human story of getting through sufferings, and the journey is described by multiple viewpoints which are invented from media history. Through a first person perspective of drone and second person perspective of computer game, audiences become a God, gamer and virtual ‘I’ in the artwork. The artist induces audience to experience the relationship among human, art and technology with their eyes, ears and body. Through these diverse interpretations, the artist unfolds a meditative story of human.
SCREENING EVENT
Ars Electronica Festival – Screening of Hear the Wind_Across the Border by Hyungkyu Kim
Ars Electronica Festival – Screening of Hear the Wind_Across the Border by Hyungkyu Kim
Ars Electronica Festival – Screening of Mantra by Hwayong Jung
Ars Electronica Festival – Screening of Mantra by Hwayong Jung
Ars Electronica Festival – Screening of Stroll, Scroll and Sight by Sungrok Choi
Ars Electronica Festival – Screening of Stroll, Scroll and Sight by Sungrok Choi
JURY
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AMY HEIBEL
Adjunct Curator of Art + Technology Lab, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, L.A., USA
Amy Heibel began her career in journalism at the Center for Investigative Reporting and later served as an executive creative director in over 200 projects for Louvre, the National Gallery of London, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Tate Modern, SFMOMA, LACMA and the Getty. She received her bachelor’s degree in Scripps College and master’s degree in UC Berkeley in Philosophy. For 9 years from 1997, Heibel created multimedia contents with new digital media technique by leading creative and technical teams in San Francisco, New York, London and Paris. She has worked as the Head of New Media in LACMA for 2 years and has become the Vice President until now, taking responsibilities for all web and digital media engagement strategies and museum technology infrastructure.
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MARTIN HONZIK
Head of Ars Electronica Festival, Linz, Austria
Martin Honzik is an artist and director of Ars Electronica’s Festival, Prix and Exhibitions divisions. He studied visual experimental design at Linz Art University (graduated in 2001) and completed the master’s program in culture & media management at the University of Linz and ICCM Salzburg (graduated in 2003). From 1998 to 2001, he was a member of the production team at the OK Center of Contemporary Art. In 2001, he joined the staff of the Ars Electronica Future Lab, where, until 2005, his responsibilities included exhibition design, art in architecture, interface design, event design and project management. Since 2006, Martin Honzik has been director of the Ars Electronica Festival and the Prix Ars Electronica and in charge of the exhibitions in the Ars Electronica Center as well as Ars Electronica’s international exhibition projects. His recent achievements in addition to numerous art projects (e.g. Ganz Linz, Vernichtungsaktion), include co-founding the u19 – CREATE YOUR WORLD festival for young people and serving as head of production and director of the 2012 Voestalpine Klangwolke.
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MYUNGJI BAE
Curator of National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea
Myungji Bae received her bachelor’s degree in arts and later received her master’s degree and Ph.D. in art history in Hongik University. From 2004 to 2015, she worked as an executive curator in Coreana Museum of Art and directed over 20 domestic/international exhibitions. Her recent works include Tell Me Her Story ‘(2013), Performing Film (2013), and Featuring Cinema (2011). In 2006, Bae received Award of the Year from the Arts Council Korea for an exhibition Image Theater curated by her. She is currently serving as a curator in Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Gwacheon, Korea.
THE 1ST AWARD (5th ENG)
THE 1ST VH AWARD
FINALISTS
FINALISTS
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GRAND PRIX
JE BAAK, A JourneyIn A JOURNEY the viewers travel around the surrealistic world filled with symbols alike innocent children’s inquiries. The artist transforms the virtual reality in RPG games into the place of contemplation, and allows the viewers to experience the world full of symbolic elements and situations in the perspective of a traveler, and by doing so, he poetically expresses the various questions that the viewers encounter during their training in a journey called ‘life’. -
FINALIST
SUNGJAE LEE, Avyakrtamoving painting, 3min 23sec
The mountain viewed from distance may feel serene and slow, yet the small and fast elements comprise parts of a mountain and thus form the whole. Likewise, AVYAKRTA is composed of small elements such as humans and trees, which move at gradual pace within abstract structure. The artist applies the technique of high speed cinematography in his artwork to represent the long-term process of transformation of human body and mind, and constant and eternal relationship between individuals and groups. -
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SUKJOON JANG, FlatcityThe modern cityscape enclosed within the flat computer screen is perceived with the zooming in and out activities with mouse scrolling movements. Using a drone camera as its tool, FLATCITY mimics the movements of getting closer and drifting away that are captured in the virtual reality within online map system. Images recorded in various locations are divided by each coordinate’s frame, and perpendicularly ambulate between the parts and whole of scenery to draw a novel, sensuous media-landscape.
SCREENING EVENT
Ars Electronica Festival – Screening of A Journey (2015) by JE BAAK
Ars Electronica Festival – Screening of Avyakrta (2015) by Sungjae Lee
Ars Electronica Festival – Screening of Avyakrta (2015) by Sungjae Lee
Ars Electronica Festival – Screening of Flatcity (2015) by Sukjoon Jang
Ars Electronica Festival – Screening of Flatcity (2015) by Sukjoon Jang
Ars Electronica Festival – Screening of A Journey (2015) by JE BAAK
Ars Electronica Festival – Screening of A Journey (2015) by JE BAAK
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HOUNGCHEOL CHOI
Curator at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
Choi Houng-Cheol is currently a Curator of MMCA Korea and Project Director of Banjul-Schale. He was granted B.F.A.(1996) and M.F.A.(1998) at Department of Sculpture, Seoul National University and studied Art Theory at the Graduate School of Kookmin University for PhD from 2011 to 2013. He actively worked on diverse exhibitions and projects since 2001. His works are mainly about contemporary art and media. Latest exhibition curated by Choi is ‘Supernature’ at MMCA, Seoul in 2014. One of his main exhibitions A Night on the Galactic Railroad at Nampo Museum of Art, Goheung was held in 2013 and the other one, Museum Link Exhibition Bad Romanticism was held in ARKO Art Center in 2011. He also worked on the 5th Seoul International Media Art Biennale (media_city seoul 2008), at Seoul Museum of Art in 2008. He also covered various subjects in other projects and exhibitions.
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LAUREN CORNELL
Curator at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, USA
Lauren Cornell is co-curator of the 2015 New Museum Triennial: Surround Audience. From 2005-2012, she served as executive director of Rhizome and adjunct curator at the New Museum, where she organized exhibitions including Walking Drifting Dragging, Free, and served as part of the curatorial team for the inaugural Triennial in 2009. At the New Museum, Cornell has also produced performance and live events with dozens of artists including Xavier Cha, Jill Magid, Trevor Paglen, and, in 2010, she founded the annual conference Seven on Seven. From 2002-2004, she served as executive director of Ocularis, a former microcinema in Brooklyn. She is co-editor, with Ed Halter, of the forthcoming book Mass Effect: Art and the Internet in the 21st Century (MIT Press/ New Museum, 2015), and has contributed to publications including Frieze, Mousse, LTTR, North Drive Press and The Paris Review. Since 2013, she has been on the faculty at Bard Center for Curatorial Studies.
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MARTIN HONZIK
Head of Ars Electronica Festival, Linz, Austria
Martin Honzik is an artist and director of Ars Electronica’s Festival, Prix and Exhibitions divisions. He studied visual experimental design at Linz Art University (graduated in 2001) and completed the master’s program in culture & media management at the University of Linz and ICCM Salzburg (graduated in 2003). From 1998 to 2001, he was a member of the production team at the OK Center of Contemporary Art. In 2001, he joined the staff of the Ars Electronica Future Lab, where, until 2005, his responsibilities included exhibition design, art in architecture, interface design, event design and project management. Since 2006, Martin Honzik has been director of the Ars Electronica Festival and the Prix Ars Electronica and in charge of the exhibitions in the Ars Electronica Center as well as Ars Electronica’s international exhibition projects. His recent achievements in addition to numerous art projects (e.g. Ganz Linz, Vernichtungsaktion), include co-founding the u19 – CREATE YOUR WORLD festival for young people and serving as head of production and director of the 2012 Voestalpine Klangwolke.