“NJPAC-FACT Artist Residency Exchange Program Exhibition”

■ Overview

Exhibition Title   Lume(Auto)

Period                  30 January – 25 March, 2018

Venue                   Nam June Paik Art Center 1F, Mezzanine

Opening               30 January, 2018 4pm

Artist                    Chris Shen

Hosted and

Organized by       Nam June Paik Art Center, FACT

Supported by      Arts Council England, Arts Council Korea, GyeongGi Cultural Foundation

※ This project is supported by Korea-England joint fund.

※ About the UK/Korea Cultural Season

Arts Council England is co-investing 1.4 million in international collaboration and exchange with Arts Council Korea. FACT and NJPAC are delighted to be among the 21 performing and visual arts projects in England and South Korea to receive awards from the fund. The Arts Council England–Arts Council Korea co-investment sits alongside and complements the UK/Korea 2017–18 season, jointly organized by the British Council and the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism of Korea.

■ Introduction of Lume (Auto)

Nam June Paik Art Center and FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology) have participated in the Artists’ Residency Program for UK/Korea 2017-2018 with the theme ‘Creative Future’ to promote emerging artists based in the United Kingdom and South Korea. Nam June Paik Art Center released an open call to select a UK young artist last September and ‘Chris Shen’ was selected as a final winner through a jury process last October. The artist has been participating in the Residency Program of Nam June Paik Art Center since December, 2017. 

Operating at the intersection between technology and art, Chris Shen has conducted research on the characteristics of the instruments and devices and explored his own artistic methodologies. The exhibition Lume (Auto) on display at the Nam June Paik Art Center shows an interminable interaction of objects, using automatic security lights, based on a chain reaction of lights operated by neighboring sensors. Shen explains it as an ‘unpredictable propagation as well as binary ripples of light.’ The artist creates a new way of communication or interaction, and presents a series of open ended questions so that the viewers can discover their own meaning through the works, whilst examining the effects of complex structures of devices or instruments on our everyday life.

"A handful of types of elementary particles, which vibrate and fluctuate constantly

between existence and nonexistence and swarm in space, even when it seems that there is nothing there, combine together to infinity like the letters of a cosmic alphabet to tell the immense history of galaxies… "

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