The VH AWARD’s purpose is to uncover promising but relatively unknown Korean artists creating media art. It seeks to support the art-making process of these young, talented media artists but to also help them gain international recognition.
To guarantee a fair evaluation, all award winners will be selected by highly celebrated curators from both Korea and other parts of the world. This will also facilitate the creation of fruitful, global connections between potential award winners and well-known curators. In addition, the VH AWARD will introduce a new genre of media art to the public. This new genre centers on innovative ways of communicating information, which ultimately promote a more tightly knit field of art.
In order to showcase Korean media art in an optimal manner conducive to garnering global attention, the finalists will have the opportunity to display their works of art through the spectacular, 24.4-meter-long media-wall, located at the Hyundai Motor Group University—Mabuk Campus.
Projects
A Thousand Horizons
Dongjoo Seo (KR)
A Thousand Horizons combines CG and the repetitive page-turning of a book, captured through an unfamiliar perspective. Through the constantly expanding and changing horizontal landscape of the symbolic time of ”day,” it explores the digital and analog media’s temporal, spatial, and material properties, metaphorizing human reason, action, and interaction. It poses questions about the being between macro – micro, external – internal, conceptual – abstract, real – fantasy, nature – artificial, body – mind, captivating visitors into a synesthetic experience.
Highway like A Shooting Star
Youngkak Cho (KR)
Highway like a Shooting Star explores the idea of roads as witnesses to civilizations, and the most innate of human systems. The artist presented an AI machine-learning algorithm with diverse depictions of roads, which in turn created a work completed through intervention of the other, without a human emotive presence. By hypothesizing the process and outcome where machines or technological systems become leading bodies in a future society, the artist beckons visitors to consider what roles and significance human beings will embody in this not-so-distant future.
BLACK AIR
최찬숙 Chansook Choi (KR)
Black Air deals with the human dichotomy in engaging with the land that we occupy, and the critical responses to it. The human need for development, driven by modern rationalism, creates an austere dichotomy with rigid boundaries and stratification to everything. The others in that dichotomy are unable to own land, and become border-crossing nomadic beings. Through such an approach, the artwork redefines the earth as a subject of connected empathy, as well as the founding platform of humanity, and not so much an object of possession.
