We are hosting an Artist Talk series with the participating artists in conjunction with Big Brother Blockchain, an exhibition conceived for the 40th anniversary of Good Morning Mr. Orwell. This exhibition envisions alternative futures that challenge the control of technology and information while exploring contemporary art's response to the rapidly changing digital environment. We aim to create an opportunity for dialogue with seven artists who, in pursuit of the ideals that Nam June Paik envisioned, are exploring new pathways in technology and imagining a world different from the present. This series will have three sessions, each discussing the planning and production process, as well as various collaboration models. We invite you to join us for insights into new futures through the eyes of emerging artists.

Artists

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SANGHEE is a Seoul-based artist who works across a variety of genres, including VR, sound performance, games, and two-dimensional media. The artist is interested in the gaps and emotions experienced when physical inputs from the real world have an output in the virtual world or are redirected through the virtual world and back into the real world. With the interactive VR, Oneroom-Babel, SANGHEE won the Award of Distinction in the New Animation Art sector in Prix Ars Electronica. She was also invited to the Venice Immersive section at the Venice International Film Festival.

Hong Minki is a Seoul-based artist who has been making videos, exhibitions, and performances with an interest in socio-political issues. Hong especially addresses the bias in technology related to social agendas such as gentrification, same-sex marriage, and equal rights of disabled people, fostering critical thinking and publicizing contemporary social issues. Hong has produced independent films such as Paradise and I Smell Wedding Bells and has also held a solo exhibition.

HWI is an electronic musician and visual artist based in Seoul. She creates music and visual images using densely layered distorted voices as her material. As a member of the artist collective eobchae, HWI critically examines social structures and phenomena in the age of technological media and pinpoints how we communicate and relate online. HWI released her debut EP ExtraPlex in 2019, and the soundtrack of eobchae, The Decider’s Chamber in 2021.

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Lee Yanghee is a choreographer working in New York and Seoul. As an artist dealing with the language of performing arts, Lee showcases temporary stages or exhibitions to present her work. She questions the value, possession, and enjoyment of performing arts and proposes and experiments with choreographic methods that horizontally illuminate and structure performance’s nature, attitudes, and elements. Lee has been an artist-in-residence at New York Live Arts (2011) and Movement Research (2014-2016) and is the recipient of a fellowship from the Asian Cultural Council.

Chang Seo Young is an artist based in Seoul interested in the overturn of presence and absence, the beginning and end of existence, and flexible presence. Using video installation as her primary medium, the artist has explored the relationship between the body and time. She focuses on perceptive changes in time and space caused by illness or aging and the process of the transformed temporal and spatial feedback to the body. Chang has held solo exhibitions, including Skid (2022), A Blinding Future (2021), and beginning to end at the beginning (2019).

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Kwon HeeSue is a filmmaker and audiovisual performance artist based in Seoul. She works at the intersection of video and performance based on image and physicality. Kwon is especially interested in rearranging the social order through the expansion of perspectives and the subversion of physical sensation by utilizing optical devices. Kwon’s major works include Background Radiation Reflection (Platform L, 2020), Core (Windmill, 2021), Monsoon (Seoul Art Space Mullae, 2022), and Developers (Seoul Art Space Mullae, 2023).

Jo Seungho works mainly in Seoul as a composer, theater and film music director, sound engineer, and musician. He gives agency to marginalized and abandoned beings by embracing the old media of analog devices. Recently, the artist has been working on detailed installations that mute sound and reveal his psychological state and attitude. In 2016, Jo performed TV Jungle as a member of Tape Ape at the Nam June Paik Art Center and presented the performance Take Care, Obsolete Machine (2022). Jo has also held his solo exhibition Stay Mute, in 2023.