unplugged heads 2.0 Vortrag und Diskussion mit Byoung Ho Kim im INM

13. January 2009

Please see below English version and background

Liebe Freunde und Partner des INM-Instituts,

am Dienstag, den 13. Januar 2009 um 18.00 Uhr lädt das INM-Institut für Neue Medien zum ersten "unplugged heads 2.0" im Jahr 2009 wieder einmal zu einem multi-kulturellen Diskurs über Neue Medien und Kunst in die Schmickstraße 18 ein.

Unser Referent ist der Sound Sklupturen und Medieninstallations-Künstler Byoung Ho Kim aus Seoul, South Korea, der zurzeit als artist in residence der Stadt Frankfurt in der Schmickstraße 18 zu Gast ist. Sein Thema lautet: Assembled Fantasy, a Fantasy of Desire und er stellt uns seine Arbeiten aus dem Bereich Tonsklupturen und Medieninstallationen vor. Byoung Ho Kim hat in Korea schon viele Gruppen- und Einzelausstellungen bestritten und diverse Preise gewonnen. Er lehrt an verschiedenen Hochschulen und Instituten in Korea und hat u.a auch schon für Armani/Casa gearbeitet.

Sie sind herzlich eingeladen am 13.01.2009 um 18.00 Uhr in die Schmickstraße 18 zu uns auf den Kulturbunker im Frankfurter Osthafen.
Der Vortrag findet in englischer Sprache statt. Details finden Sie unter www.inm.de oder auf Byoung Ho Kim´s Webseite www.bitpaste.com.

Invitation in English:

Dear Friends and Partners of the INM-Institute,

Tuesday, January 13th 2009 at 18.00 o´clock the INM-Institute welcomes you to our first unplugged heads 2.0 in the year 2009 at Schmickstrasse 18.

Our first guest is the sound sculpture and media installation artist Byoung Ho Kim from Seoul, South Korea, who is at time artist in residence of the City of Frankfurt at Schmickstraße 18.

His topic will be Assembled Fantasy, a Fantasy of Desire and he will present and talk about his works in the field of sound sculptures and media art installations. Byoung Ho Kim participated in many group exhibitions in Korea and already had some solo exhibitions, too. He won several prices and teaches as lecturer at varous universities and institutions in Korea. He also worked i.e. for Armani/Casa.

You are kindly invited at the 13th January 2009 at 18.00 o´clock in Schmickstrasse 18 on top of the Kulturbunker in the eastern harbour of Frankfurt.

The talk will be held in English. Details can found at: www.inm.de or on Byoung Ho Kim´s website: www.bitpaste.com.

Background:
For last three years, Byoung Ho Kim focused on creating diverse sculptures, which stand for the social phenomenon and diverse individual desires consistently suggesting new goal of modern society and new paradigm of life. For the materials he mostly uses steel, aluminium, non-ferrous metals and various electronic equipments for the sounds.

Theory
Most of Byoung Ho Kim´s works involve invisible digital technologies for making the specific interactive sounds that viewers can participate with in the exhibits. He calls it hidden media because any equipment or computer programs that react to the speech of the viewers are never revealed although they often play an important role in his sculptures. He believes that the digital technologies are seamlessly melted within the new advanced sculptures or media sculptures.

With the help of a specific process of frequency modulation he changes the language to the vague signs as Ferdinand de Saussure had described it. He believes that language is one of the crucial means for expressing desires. As he reproduces it through the particular equipment connected to the computer, the social languages finally alter individual vague desires. Thus he hopes that his media sculptures allow the viewers to experience the sounds that express their own desires.

Vita and more information at: www.bitpaste.com.
Mit herzlichen Grüssen aus der Schmickstrasse

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