Yeondoo Jung, Crow’s Eye View, 2022, Immersive video, 14min. 16sec. ©Ulsan Art Museum
Ulsan Art Museum presents “XR Lab Review” through May 19, featuring three works that have been introduced in the XR Lab since its opening.
“XR Lab Review” is an exhibition reminding three artworks: We Are the Primitives of a New Era by Aldo Tambellini, Crow’s Eye View by Yeondoo Jung, and Entanglement by Artificial Nature (Haru Ji+Graham Wakefield) x Chan-Byuong Chae. These artworks have garnered high praise as immersive videos that transcend time and space, among the artworks presented at the museum. By screening the works of three artists with different eras and social contexts in relay, the exhibition aims to offer insights into our lives in the digital age.
We are the primitives of a new era is a digital reinterpretation of Aldo Tambellini’s video film series “Black,” which explores and experiments with the possibilities of electronic media since the late 1960s. Aldo Tambellini was one of the first artists to work with video and television as artistic mediums. Considering “Black” as the beginning of everything and the source of energy as “light,” he created the “Black” series with insights into the origins of the universe or the origins of life. We are the primitives of a new era is a masterpiece by Aldo Tambellini, a realistic media art work created in the Ulsan Art Museum’s XR Lab to offer the ultimate immersive experience .
Crow`s Eye View is a digital immersive video artwork that proposes the vision of Ulsan as a city striving to coexist with humans, technology, and nature, offering alternative solutions to the challenges of a rapidly changing technological society. Although Ulsan is widely known as an industrial city from an external perspective, Crow`s Eye View implicitly expresses Ulsan’s dual identity, aiming for an eco-friendly city, evident across various aspects within the city. This video, which depicts Ulsan as seen from the perspective of a crow, was produced by collaboration between the Ulsan Art Museum and the artist Yeondoo Jung, who has been experimenting with multimedia integration, including photography, video, performance, and installations.
Entanglement is a multi-sensory, multi-dimensional immersive artwork where the visible world, depicted as a forest motif, intertwines with the invisible world, creating a connected experience. This artwork was created as a collaborative art-science and technology project by the media artist team Artificial Nature (haru Ji + Graham Wakefield) and the research team led by Chan-Byoung Chae. Their work focuses on creative research involving computational art, generative art, complex systems, immersive installations, and mixed reality. This work is a non-real-time feedback system designed for the Ulsan Art Museum’s XR Lab space. It provides viewers with an artistic experience that maintains the balance of the entire system by intentionally allowing errors and data omissions in the creative process while simultaneously approaching nature as a complex system.
