Hong Sungchul graduated from Hongik University’s Department of Sculpture (1994) and obtained a master’s degree in Fine Art / Integrated Media from the California Institute of the Arts (2001).
《Your Mind's Eye : Digital
Spectrum》 is an exhibition to be presented at the Seoul
Museum of Art from July 18th through August 23rd, 2008 which sheds light on
diverse aspects of Op Art since the 1960s from the new perspective of
contemporary media environments.
Under the theme of "Seeing" or
"Visual Perception" the exhibition is designed to allow viewers to
actively participate in various visual perception activities, experience art as
an amusement or pleasure, and at the same time provide an opportunity to expand
the breadth of their scientific, philosophical thoughts.
In this
show, like both scientists and alchemists have done, participating artists
bring about fantastic spaces by using techniques and various apparatus for
exploring and exploiting the fallibility of the eye like those found in many
visual puzzles and thus, viewers can experience a fantastic world beyond the
limits of visual perception.
This world is merely what our eyes intend to
discover. This can be seen in the new perception and meaning under the media
environment of the computer, which reflects a recent philosophical atmosphere
lacking absolute belief and worth.
