"DMZ on the WEB"
Hidden & Alienated Nature -DMZ
2001.10.10 - 2001.11.11
Intro
Web art project DMZ on the WEB will be open from October 10, 2001 to November 11, 2001 on www.livedmz.net under the theme of concealed and objectified Nature the Memory, the contact, and the healing of DMZ. Nine online and offline artists, who examined DMZ and web, interpret DMZ in historical, ecological, and symbolic way through workshops, seminars, and DMZ surveys. This exhibition is consist of three parts: memory, interface, and healing. This exhibition will show the process of healing of the unseen conflict between human and the nature, human and the DMZ, and will give us a chance to think about the relationship between human and the nature.
Project Concept
Will the web, the uncompleted space, repeat ideological conflicts as in the
DMZ, the objectified space?
-The most characteristic of the web is its open communication. But it is also
limited to the certain language. DMZ is not a result of one nations internal
conflicts, but a result of power struggle of the world. We will discuss about
this ideological issue of DMZ on the open web with art.
Pursuit of the exhibition that relates Online/offline, and coordinator/artist/audience organically.
-Web is often criticized by the fact that it requires certain equipments to access, and it excludes the real space. To overcome those problems, this exhibition opens workshops, seminars, DMZ surveys, exhibitions and forums to the public. By doing so, we intend to connect the online and offline exhibition, and artists and audiences.
Exploring web art through the group work
-Based on the characteristics of the web that can be summarized as openness, interactivity, integration of media, and the flatness, artist, designer, and programmer work together on a group project.
Current interpretation of DMZ, which is prescribed as political and ideological space
-DMZ is not simply a symbol of ideological conflicts. The artists in their 20s and 30s, who havent experienced the war directly, interpret DMZ in historical, ecological, symbolical, and mythological way. By their various points of view, DMZ reborns as a live organism, and a life space.
Subjective Field
1. Field of Memory
As the generation of those who experienced the cease-fire of the Korean war
passes away, the evidences, wounds, and memories of the war also become forgotten
with them. The wounds of the war and various destructions have remnants in the
society in terms of military culture, male violence, or expansionism.
In this field, artists question about their past and link personal and historical
memory to the present through exploring the buildings, landmine, and war-ecology
that are traces of the war.
Artists: Joong-Jae Lee, Seong-Yoon Yang, Kyung-Hee Lee
2. Field of Contact
DMZ is a kind of natural field. In this field, artists will give a chance for the audience to confront DMZ as the nature through contacting various plants, animals, and organisms of swamp and forest.
Artists: Bi-ho Ryu, Jae-Woon Rho, Hoon Park
3. Field of healing
DMZ is not yet demilitarized zone. It is only reached mentally not physically. Like europeans criticized the Fascism only by the endless discussion, and Japanese self-examined the militarism through the wounds of atomic bomb, we have to reflect the history and the presence through the DMZ. In this field, the nature of DMZ is the object of human, and Korean. So, DMZ is constant object of self-examination and discussion, and symbol of healing.
Artists: Eun-Ah Seol, Yoon-Seok Lee
Webproject Group Node
A Node simply means a knot. It is a sign of intensive information in the engineering
theory, and a subject of an act as a sociological model. It is a group and a
node that consists of different artists, theorists, designers, and engineers.
They understand strengths of each other while creating new ideas.
Our main concern is web art, and net art. We make one or two new projects every
year with various subjects exploring the essence and the limit of the web.
We see the web not as a copy of real world, but as an extension of a life and
a social ecology. The power of web lies in its openness and public accessibility.
In this project, rather than showing the form clearly, we will show the process
afterwards. The theme of the exhibition on the first half the year of 2002 is
space, minority, and ecology. In the second half of the year, we are planning
to have a second exhibition about DMZ.
이 전시는 한국문화예술진흥기금의 지원을 받아 이루어진 미술전시부분
책임기획전입니다
본 프로젝트는 호주에서 열리는 MAAP (The Multimedia Art Asia Pacific)페스티벌 참가작입니다
(10월 15일 이후 www.maap.org.au에서도 볼 수 있습니다)
FreeZone(자유참가)는 누구나 작품을 올릴 수 있는 영역이니 많은 참여바랍니다.
책임기획 - 이광준
큐레이팅 - 이광준 / 임근혜
주관 - 웹프로젝트팀 "Node" /
시월커뮤니케이션
주최 - 웹프로젝트팀 "Node" Art Center NABI
후원 - 한국문화예술 진흥원 / 녹색연합
webproject team "Node"