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’.
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
JURY
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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.
