Paradise Art Lab

Participating Artists and Artworks

Spirit in Nature is a media artwork set in a world of the near-future, which has been reshaped by flooding caused by climate change. It revolves around the discovery of a life archive storage unit containing the information and memories of all living beings. This discovery results in the awakening of hybrid lifeforms that blend the genetic makeup and features of humans and non-humans, as well as Eastern and Western traditions. The artist integrates various technological media, including motion capture, AI, and game engines, aiming to offer an experience that explores and contemplates the origins of life within a reimagined space-time connecting the past and the future.

Connecting Your Dreams explores the boundary between dreams and reality. Brushstroke-like lines form shapes that depict jellyfish and flowers, symbolizing reality. Within the artwork, reality momentarily flickers, allowing symbolic figures like dragons and monsters to emerge and invite viewers into the realm of dreams. Through this transition, dreams (dragons and monsters) and reality (jellyfish and flowers) are connected by lines, forming a unified flow that conveys a dual meaning. Through this work, viewers are led to experience the moment where dreams and reality intersect within their subconscious.

Patterns of Symbiosis: Coexisting Patterns is a media façade artwork that explores the patterns of the living world. Drawing inspiration from Alan Turing's reaction-diffusion system theory proposed in the 1950s, this work decodes the complex patterns found in nature through two mathematical principles: activation and inhibition. Using this theory, the artist visually recreates patterns that transcend the boundaries between nature and humanity, as well as between reality and the virtual world. The artwork presents vibrant patterns created through the processes of activation and inhibition and explores the essence of an interconnected world by reversing the agents of activation and inhibition depending on the observer’s perspective. Through this process, viewers discover how intricate and deeply interconnected our world is, gaining a renewed awareness of their place within it.

Meme-ified Vandalism: Legacy is an artwork that reinterprets historical symbols through a contemporary lens, exploring digital-age vandalism and meme culture. The Duke of Wellington statue in front of the Gallery of Modern Art in Glasgow, UK, has been transformed into a modern icon through a meme, where citizens place a traffic cone on its head. The artwork examines the distinction between vandalism and memes, rediscovering the value of cultural heritage and reflecting on how it can be preserved. Additionally, it aims to reassess the distorted cultural perceptions shaped by the Gwanghwamun graffiti incident.

Tectonic Worm 002 depicts a symbiotic landscape where growing trees, drawn through organic algorithms, exhibit rhythmic movements based on Seoul's climate data. The trees and the rhythms of nature, as organic life forms flourishing in the center of Seoul, create an organic landscape. The dancing Tanhamu shaman performs a rhythmic dance while exchanging energy with the trees on the screen. The artwork sensorially conveys the flow of nature within the city, breathing new life into everyday landscapes.

Innermost Landscape is a nonlinear spatial-temporal landscape that explores the rhythms of the deepest inner self through the abstraction of ink painting. Unique rhythms, energy cycles, and waveforms inherent in nature and the human inner self are transformed into rhythmic ink lines, flowing freely in and out of water and moving organically. This work, which evokes a sense of inherent vitality, invites the viewer to experience the essence of sensation and guides them into a state of profound resonance.