METAMORPHOSIS
This exhibition in Seoul searches for meaningful core patterns by revisiting this triangular relationship to encourage diverse discussions about humanity in an age of uncertainty.
What kind of individual or societal transformations will follow the global pandemic? METAMORPHOSIS refers to one of the classics Book of Changes (I Ching) and proposes that the fundamental meaning and reason behind constant change is to broaden our understanding of the relationship between humanity, nature and the machine. According to the Book of Changes, while human society is in constant transformation, and everything is subject to change, at the same time there is a core that never changes. It is therefore possible to foresee the future by understanding this core, profoundly.
The exhibition was on show at Hyundai Motor Studio Seoul from June 15 to November 2020.
Alain Thibault, Art Director of ELEKTRA & DooEun Choi Art Director of Hyundai Motor Company.
METAMORPHOSIS (2020) by ELEKTRAELEKTRA
METAMORPHOSIS (2020) by ELEKTRAELEKTRA
METAMORPHOSIS
presents six artworks chosen from the previous and upcoming ELEKTRA International Digital Art Biennales. The six artists are based in three different continents and their work is based on exploration of new digital technologies.
METAMORPHOSIS (2020) by ELEKTRAELEKTRA
Soul Shift, 2018, by Justine Emard is a film depicting the interaction between two humanoid robots - Alter 1 and Alter 2 - powered by artificial intelligence, programmed by Ishiguro’s Lab at Osaka University and Takashi Ikegami at the University of Tokyo.
SOUL SHIFT (2018) by Justine EmardELEKTRA
CHROMA (cy452) (2019) by Yunchul KimELEKTRA
Chroma (cy452), Yunchul Kim, 2019
METAMORPHOSIS (2020) by ELEKTRAELEKTRA
Chroma (cy452) is an installation in the shape of a torus knot. Its 320 cells are generated by a gravity algorithm and irradiate an iridescent spectrum of chromatic changes that together present viewers with an alternative “mattereality”.
Portrait on the Fly (2015) Christa Sommerer and Laurent Mignonneau is an interactive installation which mimics the contours of a person standing in front of it with countless moving speckles resembling a swarm of flies.
OVER THE AIR (2020) by TeamVOID and Youngkak ChoELEKTRA
Over the Air (2018) TeamVOID and Youngkak Cho
OVER THE AIR (2018) by TeamVOID and Youngkak ChoELEKTRA
OVER THE AIR (2018) by TeamVOID and Youngkak ChoELEKTRA
OVER THE AIR (2018) by TeamVOID and Youngkak ChoELEKTRA
Over the Air (2018) is a performance installation work comprising two robot arms and a cubic box connecting them. The robot arms interpret data on the world’s air quality index and reconstruct the information into drawing and sound on the cubic box.
METAMORPHOSIS (2020) by ELEKTRAELEKTRA
Custos Cavum (2011) by Choe U-Ram means the Guardian of the Hole that connects two different worlds. The seal-like kinetic sculpture has wing-shaped Unicuses that grow and gently move above it. The sculpture blurs the boundary between vitalism and mechanism.
METAMORPHOSIS (2020) by ELEKTRAELEKTRA
Serial Mutations(z-axis) v04 (2020), Matthew Biederman
Serial Mutations(z-axis) v04 is a generative video work that lays bare the flatness of the screen itself: a series of Necker cubes and symmetric patterns the view to confront the reality of the screen and its illusory space through the manipulation of color and transparency.
Serial Mutations (z-axis) v04 (2016) by Matthew BiedermanELEKTRA
METAMORPHOSIS
HYUNDAI X ELEKTRA
Exhibition at Hyundai Motorstudio Seoul [KR]
June 15 - November 2020
Co-curators:
Alain Thibault, Art Director of ELEKTRA
DooEun Choi, Art Director of Hyundai Motor Company.
Artists:
Matthew Biederman [CA]
Choe U-Ram [KR]
Justine Emard [FR]
Yunchul Kim [KR]
Christa Sommerer & Laurent Mignonneau [AT]
TeamVoid & Younkak Cho [KR]
