CICA NMAC 2020 Collab Project
CICA New Media Art Conference 2020:
Into the Clouds
Conference June 18 – 21, 2020
CICA NMAC 2020 Collab Project Collaborators: Yeohyun Ahn, Rubén Vega Balbás, Tyler Calkin, Yuto Hasebe, KairUS Art+Research (Linda Kronman & Andreas Zingerle), Nicholas Kersulis & Nathan Matteson, Karen Krolak, Leejin Kim, Hyunseung Lee, Taekyeom Lee, Justin Lincoln, Sora Woo, Kyungjin Yoo
A4 O2O Project Online Archive Launched
Herbacula.net (2010-2013) – Online + Offline Project
Herbacula: Leejin Kim Online+Offline Solo Exhibition (2012)
Project Website: http://herbacula.net (2010-2013)
Herbacula is the data set from my art creation process continuously inspired by my “taste”. My artistic and personal “taste” is a living object that continuously metamorphoses based on my collected data.
In Herbacula.net, my input – collected data and output – works and researches have been documented since 2010. My works have constantly emerged from my digital source data and added back to it.
The offline solo exhibition in CICA museum is a tangible advertisement of Herbacula, a formless data set. Then the offline exhibition will be recorded back to Herbacula. Through online and offline exhibitions, I materialize Herbacula through showcasing debris of my data set in various forms of Art including installation, websites, prints, and clothing.
허바큘라(Herbacula)는 나의 “취향”에 바탕을 둔 예술 창작과정을 기록한 데이터셋이다. 나의 예술적, 또한 개인적 취향은 살아있는 유기체와도 같이 수집된 데이터에 의하여 끊임없이 변형된다.
2010년부터 Herbacula.net에 Input-수집된 데이터와 Output-작업과 연구를 기록해왔다. 나의 작품은 디지털 소스 데이터로부터 끊임없이 생성됨과 동시에 데이터로 추가된다.
CICA 미술관 오프라인 전시는 무형의 데이터셋인 Herbacula의 유형화된 광고이다. 또한 전시기록은Herbacula의 데이터셋에 추가될 것이다. 온라인과 오프라인 전시를 통해 데이터셋의 파편들을 다양한 미술의 양식으로 제시함으로써 Herbacula를 물질화하고자 한다.
Hybridizer.org (2009) – Online + Offline Project
Leejin Kim Online + Offline Project
July 4 – 12, 2009
Woosuk Hall, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
Project Website: http://hybridizer.org
As a young artist, I have felt doubts about complex art distribution systems and conventional fine art disciplines that pursue “unconventional and free expressions of Artists.” I created an online + offline store/exhibition to enable direct trade between artists and art consumers. I designed a logo of Hybridizer and invited 8 artists (including me) to create their own sub-logos. In the online and offline exhibition, we sold clothes, ornaments, and art works we either created, used, or renewed. I categorized our items to three collections: “Extraction” for items we used, “Hybridization” for items we reconstructed from the vintage items, and “Systemization” for items we made.
My Typology (2007) – Online + Offline Project
Website: http://leejinnet.fatcow.com/my_typology
I have been interested in “glocalized” visual languages functioning as different meanings in different cultures. While studying both in the United Sates and Korea, I frequently travel between the two countries and am fascinated by globalized pop images that have different significances in each culture. In the project, “My Typology,” I extracted 10 common elements out of 36 globalized body images I have been collected since my teenage years, from different cultures and different times, and made a website to interlink the images. The result of the project suggests that each visual element has different contexts and meanings in different cultures, inducing different interpretation of the same image.
