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Vol. 267, November 11, 2005
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Digital Paradise Media Art Exhibition

"2005 Daejeon Fast"

By Jie-hye Kim (Chemistry 03)
[Translated by Harrison Lee]
Korea Advanced Institute of Technology
373 Guseong-dong, Yuseong-gu
Daejeon 305-711, Republic of Korea

If you would like to feel the harmony between technology and art, you have to visit "Digital Paradise" being held at the Daejeon city art gallery. The characteristic of Digital Paradise is that artists and spectators work together. The artists capture spectators' motion and reaction, and reflect back their image and sound in the work. Usually spectators should be quiet in an art gallery. But unlike other galleries, in this one you can hear people laughing, chattering and walking noisily. These sounds tempt spectators.

The "Digital Paradise" exhibit at the Daejeon City Art Gallery.
When you go to Hanna Haaslahti's "white plaza" corner, you will be surrounded by dancing shadows. Shadows follow spectators' reactions, and if two persons run hand in hand, shadows follow them hand in hand. The corner is filled with many other wonderful and interesting things.

 John McCormack's "Eden" expresses life "visually" and auditorily. "Lives" in screen grow or die rapidly by sensing peoples' motion. In collapsing 1 year to 15 minutes, this work harmonizes artistic sense with scientific truth.

 Another outstanding work is Miguel Chevalier's "Ultra-Nature." Miguel captured a new kind nature that was changed by human's motion, and put it on screen. When a spectator sees the screen, seeds on the screen grow to flowers slowly. But when a spectator leaves, those beautiful flowers on screen tremble and die. You can imagine yourself walking in the field of reeds.

 This exhibition will be continued by November 18th. You can discover the meaning of high-tech paradise with your body at Digital Paradise.

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