Education
Elliot Woods
MPhys Physics, University of Manchester
Mimi Son
Interaction Design, Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design
MA in Design for Interactive Media, Middlesex University London
Exhibitions/ Festivals
2015
Lunar Surface, The Incinerator, Bucheon Foundation of Art
Light Barrier, STRP Biennale, Eindhoven Netherlands
483 Lines, Jeju Museum of Art
2014
Line Segments Space, Link, Site Whanki Wave, Whanki Museum, Seoul
Light Barrier, Da Vinci Creative 2014, Seoul Art Space Geumcheon, Seoul
Light Barrier, SIGNAL Festival, Prague
Line Segments Space(Molecular Cloud), Scopitone Festival, Nantes
Light Barrier, New Media Night, Nikola-Lenivets Art Park, Russia
Lunar Surface, Open Studio_Friendship toward Strangers, Seoul Art Space Geumcheon, Seoul
Line Segments Space, Resonate, Belgrade
2013
Lit Tree, Open Creativity Open World, COEX, Seoul
Line Segments Space, Da Vinci Idea, Seoul Art Space Geumcheon
Lit Tree, Lux Light Festival, Wellington
2012
Assembly, Water Museum, Busan
A Journey, Dublin, Hack the City, Science Gallery, Dublin
2011
Lit Tree, SIGGRAPH Asia, Hong Kong
Link, TETEM Kunstruimte, Enschede
Lit Tree, The Creators Project, Seoul
Link, File Festival, Sao Paulo
Link, Athens Video Art Festival, Athens
Lit Tree, Future Everything, Manchester
2010
Link, Design Korea 2010, Seoul
A Journey, Seoul, Bains Numeriques #5, d'Enghien-les-Bains
A Journey, London, Bains Numeriques #5, d'Enghien-les-Bains
A Journey, London, FutureEverything, Manchester
Awards
PRIX Ars Electronica, Hybrid Art Honorary Mentioned 2015
Winner of Special Media Art at the Media Architecture Biennals 2014
18th Japan Media Art Festival Awards Art Division July Selection
SELECTED TALKS
2015
Resonate Festival
Keynote talk, Museums and the Web, Chicago
2014
EyeO Festival, Minneapolis
Culture Shift Russia, Russia
Resonate, Belgrade
Distortion Field Conference, Seoul
2013
INST-INT, Minneapolis
SADI, Seoul
Lux Symposium, Wellington
Korea Design Center, Kyeonggi-do
Todai University, Tokyo
Media Art Conference, Seoul
TEDx University of Manchester, Manchester
NODE 13, Frankfurt
Culture Shift Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe
Figment Productions, Guildford
Lux Light Festival, Oslo
2012
Korea Design Center, Seoul
Omni University, Manchester
Rhizomatics, Tokyo
Social Media Cafe, Manchester
Art&&Code, Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh
2010
NODE 10, Frankfurt
Lunar Surface, The Incinerator 2015
The ‘in-between’ reality!
Choi Doo Eun, Independent Curator
Kimchi and Chips, a Seoul-based art studio
founded by Elliot Woods and Mimi Son, is where they pay attention to
‘interstices’. An ‘interstice’ is the point where imagination is initiated with
a passageway to a new reality they have pictured. This interstice also expands
to diverse lights and sounds conjoined with artistic digital technology. In
their early series <A Journey> they documented and stored their memories
or viewers’ memories of space – London, Seoul, Dublin, etc. - in a box with
light to revive such past memories vividly in the present. Afterwards, in
<Line Segment Space, Assembly>, and <LIT Tree>, they constructed
another reality and created spaces between reality and illusion by lending
imaginary light to everyday physical objects such as thread and acrylic blocks
and natural objects like trees actively using projection mapping technology. In
recent pieces, such as <Lunar Surface> and <Light Barrier>, they
make use of light to chase temporal memories space bears or visualize present
time. In their early works light was somewhat referentially used to breathe
life to narratives whereas it is more primitive and performative in their
recent projects. They lead viewers to see the source of all confronting factors
through their interstices, seeking each element’s autonomic ability.
Contrasting spatial elements, such as the visible and the invisible, dark and
bright, here and there, closing and opening and temporal elements, such as
quickness and slowness, movement and rest, past, present and future ‘naturally’
become one in the new reality these elements form.
