ISEA2019 Art Event Overview

Curator Statement  

June 22 – August 4, 2019. ACT Showcases, ACT Archive, Screenings

Creatively fusing technology and art, Asian Culture Center ACT Festival has been a platform that introduces future oriented projects and contents and encourages professionals in and out of the country to exchange ingenious and innovative ideas. The 2019 ACT Festival leads you to a journey of hacking food for the present and the future, which also become the title of this edition. Originally, ‘hack’ or ‘hacking’ meant ‘the pure pleasure from the process of working’. Through extensive programs including ACT Showcases, A/V Performances, Talks & Lectures, Workshops and Screenings, it seeks pleasure in food itself while also interrogating the aftermath and speculating possible options. Participants armed with different ideas provoke a rethink of food and suggest alternative recipes for the future. Together with artists, designers, engineers and cultural creators from all over the world, ACT Festival 2019 FoodHack will present the most contemporary and futuristic technology.

Fusing technology and art in creative ways, Asian Culture Center ACT Festival has been a platform that introduces future oriented projects and contents and encourages professionals in and out of the country exchange ingenious and innovative ideas. The ACT Festival 2019 leads you to a journey of hacking food for the present and the future, which also become the title of this edition. Originally, ‘hack’ or ‘hacking’ meant ‘the pure pleasure from the process of working’. Through extensive programs including ACT showcase, A/V performance, talk & lecture, workshop and screening, it seeks pleasure in food itself while also interrogating the aftermath and speculating possible options. Participants armed with different ideas provoke a rethink of food and suggest alternative recipes for the future. Together with artists, designers, engineers and cultural creators from all over the world, ACT Festival 2019 FoodHack will present the most contemporary and futuristic technology.

Curator Statement

Public locations outside ACC

Organized by Chosun University LINC+(Leaders in Industry-university Cooperation), Gwangju Cultural Foundation As the ISEA2019 Local Engaged Workshop, the students who are majoring in Contemporary Formative Media at Chosun University created media art pieces on the theme “Lux Aeterna” of ISEA2019. They thought about the eternity of light and tried to express it as life, crowd, and nature. Those works will be displayed around various venues in Asian Culture Center.

Han Jung Hee, Seong Yeon Ho, Mun Mi Jung, Choi Jeen Soo, Cho Ha Eun, Lee Ha Na, Park Sea Hee, Choi Yoon Jung — The course of the journey

Jung Deok Yong, Seo Yea In, Lee Dan Bi, Hong Ji Hye, Yang Yea Lim, Kim Tae Yang — Crowd

Yoon Sang Ha, Bae U Ri, Kim Ji Eun, Choi So Young, Kim Won Wi, Go Jung Hun — Two lights and artificial cloud