Project I 2.0 @ Art Center Nabi
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I got a chance to pay a short visit to Art Center Nabi, a non-profit media art center in Seoul, on Wednesday and realized how ignorant I was about what was going on in Korea's media art scene. Régine interviewed Suhjung Hur, a curator of the center, back in June. So, check that one as well, for additional information about the center, active media artists in Korea, etc.
The center is currently running the Project I 2.0 exhibition (curated by Dooeun Choi), which exemplifies the center's continuous efforts in the area of youth culture. Suhjung said, in the aforementioned interview, "we have been leading 'Project-I' through which media artists and children in different locales meet and produce projects incorporating various mundane media technologies." In Project I 2.0, 30 North Korean Refugee youths worked with mentor artists to create varieties of artistic techno artifacts embodying unique cultural, social and personal meanings. FUN studio_hide and Seek on Korean Peninsula (the above photo) is one. It's a hide and seek video game played on digitally reproduced Korean Peninsula and "there South & North Korean can play together lively." (from Project I 2.0 flyer)
Festival I 2.0 - Party Planner is another. The children participated in the process of styling food, decorating flowers, setting the table, and so on. Imagine these children plan a party for the deprived in South Korea -- and this can happen in reality. I hope to revisit the center and other places, and talk with more people when I get a chance. Many thanks to the center's staff for their kind help! |
