Arco 07 <Corea Ahora>

2.14 - 19, 2007

U-Ram Choe

U-Ram Choe, born in Seoul in 1970, graduated in sculpture from Chung-ang University and Graduate School. His machines are usually in the shape of creatures adapting to the environment instinctively like bugs, insects, electric ivy, or diode dandelions. He is concerned with insects and plants which, though considered inferior, are crucial to the future which man's arrogance and violence is influencing. It may be also a clue proving that there will be numerous saprophytes of mechanical creatures or varieties, which are about to enter the stage of self replication which he shows to warn others of limitless foolhardiness, pride, and selfishness. His works warn us that the idea of frightful mechanical insects is not only in the imagination of an artist.

Sung-Chul Hong

Sung-Chul Hong, after graduating in sculpture in Hongik University and Graduate school, got a master degree from California Institute of Arts. He uses media arts as a medium of approaching the origin of art and the nature of living through digitalized images and analogical material, creating a sensation of optical illusion, stimulating the mind of the modern spectator and exploring the sensibility of the analogical world. Images interfere one with the other, giving rise to other new ones and challenging the capacity of the human mind to recognize objects.