Quirky Korea part 4: New Media

"Turn and Widen" is an international exhibition at the Seoul Museum of Art. It explores how new forms of media are turning into art and the influence this has had on the art world. The exhibition focuses on three different areas: light, communication and time.

The light part of the exhibition was my favorite as it was so visually striking. This exhibit is called Reincarnation by Li, Hui. In a dark room you find this bed covered in glowing red lights. It's quite eerie, but somehow the atmosphere creates a sense of calm.



This is a video of an installation called Augmented Sculpture Series by Pablo Valbuena. Different light patterns are beamed onto the white sculpture, showing how the light changes its appearance.

This hanging neon sculpture is from the time section. It's a piece called Sin Lugar (Nowhere) by Carlos Coronas. I'm not quite sure what it has to do with time but it was really impressive.




This is a collage from communication. It's made up of hundreds of video clips of newsreaders all over the world. It's intriguing watching these tiny heads chattering away, each voice blending into a blur of noise. The changing images create moving patterns of light that dance across the screen.

Overall, the exhibition was a mixed bag. Some of the exhibits were really magnificent and a lot of the interactive ones were good fun. However quite a few were rather wanky and a bit too 'experimental' for my liking.