Stays in: 2011
Genre: Media Art/Video Art
Brief Description:
E-mail: naankim@dreamwiz.com (Kim Young-eun)
sanghunnam@gmail.com (Nam Sang-hun)
- Kim Young-eun
Education
2010 Chung-Ang University GSAIM KOREA, Completed Ph.D. courses in Technology ArtE-mail: naankim@dreamwiz.com (Kim Young-eun)
sanghunnam@gmail.com (Nam Sang-hun)
- Kim Young-eun
Education
2003 M.A Chelsea College of Art and Design, in Fine Art, London, UK
1999 M.A University of Hnnam, in Fine Art
1997 B.A University of Hnnam, in Fine Art
Selected Solo Exhibition
2007 China International Modern Art Festival, Weihai, China
2006 THE SPIRITUAL CYBORG, Galerie GAIA, Seoul, Korea
Selected Group Exhibition
2011 ART Fresh, Seoul Art Space GEUMCHEON, Seoul, Korea
2011 The Sociological Imagination of the City, Seoul Art Space GEUMCHEON, Seoul, Korea
2010 2010 Open Call for Davinci Idea ’The Return of Techné’, Seoul Art Space GEUMCHEON, Seoul, Korea
2010 SBS Tomorrow Festival media art, Seoul, Korea
2010 Digital Playground in Island, Kolej, Malaysia
2010 Traditional Architecture Festival, Young Duck
2010 Explore Contemporary Art, Suwon
2009 Contemporary Art UKK work, Seoul, Korea
2008 Octave, Tokyo, Japan
Award
2010 Open Call for Da Vinci Idea, Seoul Art Space GEUMCHEON, Seoul, Korea
Residency
2011 Seoul Art Space GEUMCHEON 2nd-term residency artist, Seoul, Korea
- Nam Sang-hun
2010 Chung-Ang University GSAIM KOREA, Completed Ph.D. courses in Imaging Technology Korea
2001 Chung-Ang University GSAIM KOREA M.A in Imaging Technology Korea
1999 Chung-Ang University GSAIM KOREA B.A in Mechanical Design Korea
Group Exhibition
2011 ART Fresh, Seoul Art Space GEUMCHEON, Seoul, Korea
2011 The Sociological Imagination of the City, Seoul Art Space GEUMCHEON, Seoul, Korea
2010 2010 Open Call for Da Vinci Idea ’The Return of Techné’, Seoul Art Space GEUMCHEON, Seoul, Korea
Award
2010 Open Call for Da Vinci Idea, Seoul Art Space GEUMCHEON, Seoul, Korea
Residency
2011 Seoul Art Space GEUMCHEON 2nd-term residency artist, Seoul, Korea
Reference
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=io1reVMuQV0&feature=feedlik
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrwkODLBl6I&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Pg_aJ5P-qo
Works:
<Time Compressor Sculpture Artificial Flower>, 1024×768 pix, 2010
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| <Party in the City>, stereoscopic interactive installation, 2011 |
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| <Reflection>, media installation, dimensions variable, 2011 |
Ha Kye-hoon(Professor of Dankook University / Art Critic)
Kim Young-eun and Nam Sang-hun are an artists team of married couple who works in 2D and 3D media art based on pictorial images. They create familiar pictorial image works through a perfect combination as the wife is experienced in pictorials and the husband has a background in engineering. Through this team work, they have been creating works that can communicate easily, comfortably, and in an entertaining way with the visitors as they combine arts and sciences, analogue and digital methods.
Recently, They have been showing various pieces that work with flowers as a motif. Kim Young-eun, who has been working on conceptual painting since the beginning, had her first opportunity to switch to media art during her study abroad. She says that it was when she met her husband, Nam Sang-hun, in Korea that her ideas of change over began to materialize. The artists start to pay attention to the issue of time that is closely related to our lives, during the process of experiencing a death within the family. By utilizing the flower that symbolize happiness and love, they began the metaphorical work of connecting the blossoming and withering of a flower to the life cycle of people and changing process of existence.
Even though their works are dealing with somewhat heavy and philosophical subject of life and issue of time, the couple doesn’t completely sink into contemplation and thinking when they express this subject. They said to have begun their project called “Matrix Flower” by combining the word “Flower” and “Matrix,” a word that expresses confusion in multi-dimensions. The Time Compressor Sculpture (2010) series show the process of flowers withering in a vase, and this expresses the flow of time and the life cycle. By having two cameras placed right and left of the flowers at the eye level to create a simultaneous interval filming of one cut per three minutes for over ten days, they were able to capture the images from the time of flowers’ blossoming to withering. Although, they are based on the 3D media technology using 3D projector and glasses, it also fully reveals the plasticity even in the state of 2D image. Among the art works with motif as flower, Time is a filmed work of real flowers among artificial flowers so as to express the opposition of time as the artificial flowers keep their original shape where as the blossoming and withering of real flowers are shown side by side. There is also an art work Reflection (2011) where there are many small screens within a large screen and in each of the square screens the cycle of blossoming and withering of flowers are shown to associate with our life cycle.
Kim Young-eun and Nam Sang-hun have gone a step further and created media art work that reacts to the movement of the audiences. It shows flowers on a big flower bed in a sketch state then turning into colored paintings, or butterflies moving with the movements of audiences’ fingers. Then, it shows advance 3D images where after the completion of 3D color images of flowers, the petals of the flowers disassemble and fly towards the audience. Because each petals and butterflies in this process are personally drawn images by the artist adopted into digital images, it gives a comfortable familiarity and displays closeness of the artist’s hand drawings rather than the typical mechanical and distant feeling of digital media.
Other than works with floral motif, they also presented Between (2010) which is an expression of a flat 2D image changing into a 3D image. This work is also about images developing into 3D images by combining the perceived image of the left-eye with the right eye. Through this kind of process, the audience can be free from the stereotypes of perceiving objects as they feel the 3D aspect through the separate paintings on the left and right.
In this way, the artists are freely sharing familiar images of flowers and other objects around us with the audience based on 3D technology, and they are metaphorically expressing our life cycle and change of existence through the flow of time. Their works maximize the synergy effect through the cooperative work of a painter wife and engineer husband, and in order for their works to become more approachable and popular among the public, they are going to need a progressive development of techniques that can angle towards the level of the audiences.
