2021 Art Creation Support: Persona

The 2021 <Art Creation Support> is composed of three parts: ➀ Art Creation Education (mentoring), ➁ Art Creation Grant, ➂ Art Creation Exchange. It aims to address the discourses relevant to contemporary convergence art and support art creations in line with it.

The theme of 2021 was “Persona,” a Latin word which refers to the “mask” that stage actors/actresses wear and from which the English words “person” and “personality" originated. The psychiatrist Carl Gustav Jung once said, “Human has a thousand personas so that they wear an appropriate mask depending on the circumstances and make relationships.” Humans create their persona as a compromise between their individuality and society and here, persona serves as a medium that helps humans adapt to the situation and environment they face. Due to the outbreak of COVID-19, we have confronted the sudden changes in creating a contactless society. While advanced technology brought us the possibility of a new environment connecting the reality and virtual world, we are still confused between the established order and the expected transition to the future. Based on the emerging phenomenon “multi-persona” stemming from the new environment “metaverse” in the contemporary society, the Center for Art Convergence and Art Collider Lab strive to discover and support an innovative range of artistic interpretations and practices.

• Eligibility: Bachelor/master students at Korea National University of Arts

· Art Creation Research

Art creation research based on media technology: Interactive Art, Interactive Design, Algorithmic Art, Generative Art, Audio Visual, Electronic Music, AR/VR/MR Contents, Video Art, Media Performance, etc.

· Discourse Research

Multi-disciplinary approach to the cultural phenomena and artwork theory research across art, technology and media: Midiology, Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Life, Bio Art, Techno Feminism, Art/Alt Game, DIY, Maker Movement, Appropriate Technology, Media Education/Literacy, etc.

➀ Art Creation Mentoring(education)

As part of <Art Creation Support>, this program aims to educate the production technique required in art creations using media. While we get inspired by technology shows, we also employ technology as a useful tool to realize ideas. We organize this Art Creation Mentoring to foster young artists who work across different fields.

• Period : Workshop 2021. Five classes in July

• Venue : Workshop room in Art collider Lab at the Center for Art Convergence (Changjogwan 213)

• Number of Participants : Approximately 12 people per workshop (Participants must bring their own laptops).

1) How to Make a Virtual Reality Space Workshop

Five classes in July 2021 _ Instructor: Dongjoon Park 

Dongjoon Park is a media artist who has worked with VR and photo media. He deals with individual memories and further studies social and public memories through media. He collects and explores various phenomena with memories, and newly constructs the memory from his own perspective and transcribes it into virtual space. He had a solo show <Steel life: Eulji Dimension> at the Art Center Nabi in 2019, co-directed the Space Keuk at Sewoon Cheong-Gye Arcade in 2018, and has run the online VR web platform <Archiving Babel> since 2016. In this workshop, students learn VR production using Oculus Quest and Mozilla Hub and create a virtual space made up of their own objects.

2) Playable Mapping Workshop

Five classes in July 2021 _ Instructor: Subong Jeong

Subong Jeong is a creative developer who plans and develops various new media content. He founded plinqer (based in Cheongju, Chungbuk Province), which is devoted to creating diverse and experimental content including research/development converging culture, education and technology. He is also extending his expertise to technician support and collaboration. This workshop guides students in understanding projection mapping through various cases; they try mapping by learning MadMapper, a representative mapping tool, and expand and enjoy mapping through various interfaces.

3) Augmented Reality Tutorial: Variable Workshop

Five classes in July 2021 _ Instructor: Kiryung Nam

Nam (arrddon), a director and creator, has worked across various media, technologies, genres and

forms, and continues to investigate the actual society and project fantasies onto it. He reflects the images of contemporary individuals in his works and seeks to create interactions and new movements between them. This workshop is designed to understand AR, the representative extended reality media, experience the production techniques and create a personal playful media.

➁ Art Creation Grant: max. ₩3,000,000 per individual or group

➂ Art Creation Exchange and <Showcase> support

<Showcase> is cooperated with Seongbuk Museum of Art, Seongbuk Cultural Foundation.

• Date: 2021. 11

• Venue: Cultural spaces operated by Seongbuk Cultural Foundation (Seongbuk Young Art Space and theaters)