<Gwanghwaro> literally means "to the light" or "the path of light". Light symbolizes the ideal in any culture in any era. It is a work that expresses not only common values but also the desire for everyone to be as bright and warm as light, the ideal of the city, and the hope for the future, representing a city that is reborn by learning from the light that is the source of life, the beauty of culture, and history.
Video Director : Ha junsu
LEE leenam
<Gwanghwa Sansudo> is a work that colors light to Gwanghwamun by depicting an Sansudo (painting of mountatin and water) of city where the city and mountains blend in the background of Seoul. It captures the essence of the spirit of oriental aesthetics with the theme of ‘Irworobongdo', a royal portrait where the sun and moon illuminate arithmetic, and 'Sipjangsaengdo', (Paintings of Ten Symbols of Longevity) an oriental utopia and Muryeongdowon.
Eper Digital
A new series of artworks in which primary-colored geometric forms are dynamic, ever-changing and in harmony, with visual elements rhythmically changing to a unique music. The various shapes are inspired by the symbols that formed the basis of ancient representations and the avant-garde artists of 20th century Europe.
Felix Frank
<Ethereal Flux> displays a constant flow and transformation of cosmic substance. The dynamic interplay of elements is driven by the 432Hz frequency, a frequency said to be in harmony with the patterns of the universe. This Projection Mapping Artwork aspires to dissolve the boundaries between mind and matter, orchestrating a transformative experience that reaches beyond the spectacle, inviting spectators to explore the limitless realms of their own consciousness.
Jeremy Oury
<Attraction> presents a poetic vision of the cyclical disruption induced by the moon, reinterpreting the gravitational connection between the Earth and its satellite. This artwork is a visual exploration of these invisible links and the inexorable nature of time. Pulsating light, dynamic flux and ephemeral forms create an abstract chaos that is transformed into visual harmony this mystical energy that impacts the Gwanghwamun facade with its changing phases. A celebration of the ephemeral beauty of the present, illuminated by the timeless glow of the moon, so far away yet omnipresent in our daily lives.
Nick Azidis
Time is change. Change is happening all around us. Every single moment is a moment of change. We still receive the light of stars that were born and died millions of years ago. We can not look out into space without looking back into time. Our fleeting human lives exist for a short moment inside the Milky Way, a huge collection of stars, dust and gas that forms a spiral galaxy. The universe is both expanding and contracting simultaneously in a motion of endless return. The cycles of birth, death and renewal as the cosmic Ouroboros engulfs its own tail. The moments of changes are represented in light.
HM2J
This virtual band performance utilizes deepfake as a technique in AI to create real-life historical figures and their beloved music. While historical figures are usually depicted as sublime and solemn, this work takes a more lighthearted and crowd-friendly approach.
Shin Jiho
A video art project that combines music, virtual characters, movement, and synchronization into an engaging and innovative experience. The synchronization of music, visuals, and virtual character movements is a key element of the visual/perceptual immersion of "Rhythmic Dimensions". Every visual transition, character gesture, and scene change in the video is implemented along the rhythm, beautifully blending the boundaries of sight and sound to create an immersive new experience.
Jin Meyerson
<Once in a Lifetime> is a work that looks back at Gene Myerson's art from the edge of the ever-evolving boundaries of artificial intelligence technology. More than 300 of his paintings over 25 years were transformed into data, fed into an artificial intelligence learning algorithm that generates new results based on keyword prompts such as "love," "loss," "birth," "trauma," "reconciliation," and "death".
Artificial Nature
<Entanglement> invites the viewer to enter a multi-sensory, multi-dimensional immersive environment where the visible world of the forest and the invisible world of the ground are connected and intertwined, based on the motif of the hyphae network in the forest and the ground. By showing the 'relationalization' of micro-scale and synchronous entanglements in nature through computer calculation-based technology, the work aims to shed light on the ways in which we connect with the world beyond us, and to suggest sensory opportunities for contemplation or inspiration for artificial nature embodied in technological media.
This artwork is a part of the Digital Silence project in collaboration with Ulsan Art Museum and the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering in Yonsei University.
Han Yoonjung
This work is an interactive 3D animation installation and projection that applies a reverse transfer algorithm instead of the input/output direction implemented in digital systems to raise awareness of microplastics, which are a major cause of current environmental problems. The artist asks the viewers to face the reality of climate change, warns of a future world destroyed by plastic, and encourages them to realize their own behavioral changes.
This artwork is a part of the Digital Silence project in collaboration with Ulsan Art Museum and the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering in Yonsei University.
Seo Hyojung
The work was created through a process of digitally reinterpreting the weaving of tapestry fabrics. Reflecting the various rhythms of movement found in Seoul - pedestrians, cars traveling in a straight line, and dynamic urban architecture - the images represent an abstract yet familiar world, exploring the possibilities of coding as an artistic tool. The images are generated according to a randomness constructed within artistic constraints, relating to each other, yet morphing through repetition and constantly changing.
Yaloo
Through her unique visual language, the artist builds alternative worldviews on contemporary topics and experiments with immersive experiences using digital media. The artist's position and role as a contemporary South Korean female media artist in the international community are also reflected in her unique language, as are her concerns about the Anthropocene and her role as a human being who has brought climate change to the earth. Underwater Trilogy - <Birthday Garden> <Pickled City> <Homo Paulinella the Lab> - attempts to take the first step toward a larger narrative in which the journeys of the trilogy intersect with each other at Seoul Light Gwanghwamun.
Kevn McGloughlin
Alongside the amazing strides and advancements humanity has made, science and technology bring with them a very instant and transient version of existence into our experience. With countless distractions and excessive instant stimulation, finding yourself in the world while establishing and recognising real meaning has become increasingly challenging. Distinguishing what's beneficial and important from what's harmful or insignificant has at times become difficult. <On The Way> is an effort to portray our struggle through the scramble, in the hope that we can achieve positive growth.
Emanuele Kabu
A colorful, kinetic music video featuring a group of people with a collective presence in a dynamic setting that captures a variety of locations. The work taps into the anxieties and threats to human existence caused by technological advancement in the current digital age, and uses a combination of colorful visual techniques to explore the nomadic self and the place with lack of a sense of fixity.
Joan Pombeiro
A palimpsest of history, politics, and art, a short film by Lisbon-based director Joan Pombeiro is an ode to the Midwest’s largest city and its people. <Chicago> travels across time periods and neighbourhoods in a poetic collage of community and culture <Chicago>, visually describing the process of travel starting from the South Side and downtown, is a profound, nostalgic consideration of the activism, pride, and compassion that have shaped the city.
Katie Torn
<Breathe Deep> is a single channel video work created in 2014. It is kaleidoscope of 80’s and 90’s popular culture with dozens of localized perspectives, mixing two- and three-dimensional representations without physical constraints. The resulting virtual sculpture unifies these disparate layers, either captured from real-world objects like plastic toys and fake plants or inspired from digital artifacts like animated GIFs or fish swarms originating from nostalgic screen savers. Katie Torn, growing up in this time of hyper-capitalism, delivers a hindsight portrait of a constantly overwhelmed female body, collecting and blending superficial entities manically – to defend the status quo of a fully destabilized, veneer world.
Kimwoonghyun
It represents a world after the human body has decided to become a machine. It is a moving still life that lists devices that expand or degrade the body by imagining a modern day Vanitas surrounded by media. Borrowing from the form of vanitas, which represents the futility of human desires, the still life video offers a glimpse into the process of collecting desires and human attempts to realize them. The artist asks us to reconsider this human-machine relationship through the artistic practice of <Vanitas>.
Ksawery Komputery
<Symphony in Acid> is a typograhic music video made through a collaboration with a sound director, Max Cooper. It is built with HTML code as a generative and interactive website www.symphonyinacid.net and recorded afterwards. It features text from “Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus” (1921) by Ludwig Wittgenstein, dealing with limits of language. Throuhg the work, the the artist bridges the gap between hypertext generated in a technological environment and a text written 100 years ago, and creates new connections in space and time that transcend it.
Tec Fase
Utilizing the streets as media platform, Tek Pace's three <Digital Head>s are filmed using drones over the city of São Paulo, Brazil, where the artist currently resides, and then reassembled from the images. His work combines the speed of action painting and the heterogeneity of overlapping visual layers into a single, on-screen figure. This process breaks the viewer out of the stereotypical way of interpreting existing objects and encourages a new way of perception through the creative production.
Cyriak Harris
<Circle World> was an experiment in making a looping video of a self-contained universe that ultimately creates itself. Originally it was intended to play continuously, but then I realised it would be more interesting to add some slight changes as it repeated, which would introduce some chaos to the highly structured world.
Kwon Chigyu
As a representation of the ever-circulating providence and order of nature, the work depicts the boundaries of trees forming a forest in a circular shape, and symbolically represents the Manwol(full moon) to wish for human dreams, wishes, paths, and blessings. By depicting the closely connected ecological network and inseparable relationship between the human and nature, the work expresses the potential longing for nature that lies within the human mental system.
A tree growing vertically resembles human dreams and ideals. The work is a sculpture of a growing tree with a forest as a motif. It emphasizes that the value of nature, namely the forest, is a precious so that it should be sustained and preserved in the future world, and that a transformation of perception is necessary in the history of human civilization.
Han Ho
Ahn Gyon's drawing of the interpretations of Prince Anpyeong's unfolding dreams, <Mongyudonwondo> (Dream of Strolling in a Peach Garden), is based on the motif of paradise and expresses the metaphysical space of the ideal paradise through a fusion of traditional depictions and Western painting. The minimal triangular structure incorporates both eastern and western painting styles, and the connection of media through perforations creates a visual merger of sculpture and media painting. Light makes the dream space that aspires to ideals in the real city more fantastical and exists as a light garden for humans who want to stay in the eternal light.
In line with the theme of the 2023 Seoul Light Gwanghwamun exhibition, Everybody can be a creator, selected 16 digital creators who utilize AI technology in virtual spaces such as social media rather than fine artists to express the future nature, or post-nature using technology.
@Andy Thomas
@Damonxart
@Deborah Sheedy
@Diffusion Architecture x Marron Studio
@GAisketch
@INDIE VFX
@Jan Sladecko
@Lewis den Hertog
@Minelauva Art
@Morysetta
@Rank SSS
@Space Dawg
@Yoshi Sodeoka
@메아리 mmmeari
@Cliff Sequence
In line with the theme of the 2023 Seoul Light Gwanghwamun exhibition, Everybody can be a creator, selected 15 digital creators who utilize AI technology in virtual spaces such as social media rather than fine artists to express the future nature, or post-nature using technology.
@Aether Elf
@Aleksey Efremov
@Mixard
@Morysetta
@Neptunian Glitter Ball
@Next on Now
@Niceaunties
@Pedro Mazepas
@SOZE x Braw Haus
@The Brigadoon Dispatch
@Vibrant Journey
@안재홍
@킹구 King-goo
@0010x0010
@Experimental New Worlds