Stays in: 2011
Genre: Visual Arts/Installation Arts/ Technology Art
Profile:
2010 GSAIM(The Graduate School of Advanced Science, Multimedia & Film Chung-Ang University), Imaging Science Department, Seoul, Korea
2002 School of Visual Arts, Photography and Related Media, NewYork, USA
2007 Chung-Ang University, Fine Arts, Ansoung, Korea
Solo Exhibition
2005 Oak’s House, Insa Art Space, Seoul, Korea
Group Exhibition
2011 Random Access Black Box, Seoul Art Space_Geumcheon, Seoul, Korea
GIC Biennale 2011, Bandal art Museum, Yeoju, Korea
2008 Hack the City!, Total Art Museum, Seoul, Korea
2007 See::Seen, Kum ho Art Museum, Seoul, Korea
2006 Transpace, Kim chon gyoung Art Museum, Seoul, Korea
Works:
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| <Mood Board for Laser>, laser, dynamic cell, microcontroller, physical computing, variable size, 2011 |
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| < Layer Tracer>, microcontroller, PC, projector, interactive video installation, 500 x 500 x 170 cm, 2006 |
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| <Total Hacking System>, LRAD, ultra un-directional mic, microcontroller, PC, physical computing, variable, 2008 |
(This text is an excerpt from what Kim
Byung-kyu talked with a fortuneteller named
Mun Jung-eun on June, 2012, who lives in
Jamwon-dong.)
Mun Jung-eun(write in ‘M’): Your name is
Kim Byung-kyu, and you’re about 42 years old. Is that right?
Kim Byung-kyu(write in ‘K’): I was born
in 1970.
M : When it comes to my conception, may I
talk about what occurred to me first?
K : Certainly.
M : Well, maybe, I think this is not good
time to you. In other words, your fortune is below sea level. However, it does
not take too long until you get your luck on hands. Not so distant from now. It
may come in the summer or in the autumn, when your fortune turns in your favor.
Something will be likely to occur, and there will be some of chances. By the
way, do you happen to join any club where you’re supposed to have a regular
meeting?
K : Meeting?
M : Wait a minute. Well, again there is
no movement at all. Still and calm. So then what would it be? Presumably, it
cannot definitely say that any meeting will be expected.
K : As such, you pass through the time.
Again, well, there are supposed to be so many festivals, aren’t there?
Following winter season, spring comes. Weather gets warmer. Probably, there
will come a good time. Surely, there are ups and downs on one’s luck in one’s
lifetime. Whenever you ask me of your future, then I listen to your words. Ah!
Kim Byungkyu, Byung-kyu, you will get an opportunity to have an exhibition or something
in the next year.
K : You’re right. Nowadays, to be more
specific, I am involved in laser works or something to work with electricity.
I’m devising to build a house by applying laser. And I have the other thing in
mind. You know the government office building and other tall ones in front of
Gyungbok Palace. Sometimes looking down out there, I used to find it makes up
quite beautiful scenery. How lucky are public officers that are free to enjoy
such a beauty? How blessed are rich people that live around there? At that
time, an idea flashed into my mind. What about if ordinary people were also
allowed to appreciate such an image? So, I’m conceiving some project. I don’t know
what it would be exactly. I could build kind of an overpass or any others.
Anyway, I’m racking my brains. Soon, I’m going to put it into practice. I’m
thinking over such three things. In my opinion, they have no specific relations
with each other. Sometimes, I feel concern about them. Anyhow, those come from
my brain, my heart and my thought. They don’t have to have connections with
each other. On the other hand, a string of conception streams into my head.
What I’m supposed to do is definitely right or wrong? I’m getting older. Isn’t
it right to do what I want to do right now? Can I finish it over a short
period? Will doing so be helpful to me in the long run? Like that.
M : First of all, this seems like a
festival. A specific event or a certain image reminds me of something. In
relation to such, I guess that a good chance will come to you.
K : By the way, it’s good to be busy
doing something, but I’m afraid what I’m going to do will satisfy my
acquaintances or myself or others.
M : Satisfy?
K : I’m concerned that my work will be
able to touch people or give me some sense of fulfillment. Maybe, I’m
unsatisfied with myself.
M : Kim Byung-kyu, Kim Byung-kyu. Well,
there is a little short of something, not enough. However, although you’re
satisfied with your work, there is still short of something. Something is going
on and then I guess that you’ll get to make something. Let’s see. Let’s think
about what you want to attain your goals to the full. You’re empowered to do so
between 40~50% and 80%, or 80% and 100%. I suppose that your fortune has ups
and downs. Something does not go well or is not in good order. You may be busy
doing something for a specific work, but may always encounter with some of
obstacles, including people, money or something else. Although your situation is
as such, I suppose you can finally manage to make it. If there is not any omen
of good luck at all, your chance will fade away, out of sight. However, there
remains some of it. That’s what I guess.
K : Well, then, shall I be acknowledged
as artist?
M : Well, in my opinion, you have to
strive and to raise your capacity to a certain level. Or otherwise, you have to
change your job. Of course, you can change it or not. But, you shall not do so.
So, well, Kim Byung-kyu, Kim Byung-kyu. There is a sign of something. In such time,
M : Well, that is, maybe, Kim Byung-Kyu,
that does not go well. What this means is that you had a mind to paint a
certain color for your work but actually the final result would be way from
what you expected.
K : Final result?
M : Yes, well, the color you realized in
your output may be of a similar to or the same tone as what you thought. I
imagine that the color is not like what you wanted at first.
K : Any other alternative or choice?
M : Well, I don’t know what it is and
what to do. So I have doubt about that.
K : Whatever it is, maybe I suspect that
I’m stuck to something. Something goes wrong with me. But I think your idea has
a persuasive power.
M : So, when the color you imagine is
realized in your output, in other words, when what is within you is about to
come out, you imagine a vivid color, which in turn becomes dim or faded.
K : You mean my laser work? More
specifically, I want my creation to be more conspicuous. But actually, I
suppose that it will not have been done as I wanted.
M : That’s right. When you talk about
your design in mind, the first thought that occurred to me is that although you
want to realize a vivid red color, you will have to get an orange color or
something. Like such.
K : Then, finally, I’d like to ask one
thing. Shall I have to continue doing this?
M : This?
K : Yea, what I’m doing currently.
M : Well, Kim Byunk-kyu, Byung-kyu, Well,
maybe, you might get something else. I don’t know exactly what it gives a
lesson or not. Whatever it may be, I guess you earn something from it.
K : Not as artwork but, I, Now,
M : I can hardly imagine what your
artwork would be. None of specific word comes to the front. But I guess you
probably get something or else. Wherever it comes from,
K : Yes, thank you.
