Poster image of "Digital Story: We Need Narratives," National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA), Cheongju, Korea. (November 22, 2022 - December 31, 2024). Courtesy of the museum.While Game Society at MMCA Seoul is an exhibition that presents an artistic discourse by focusing on the medium of games, Digital Story: We Need Narratives at MMCA Cheongju focuses on the museum’s digital art collections to view today’s artistic discourse in the broader context of digital media.
Unlike traditional painting or sculpture, artwork that uses digital media tells a story in a different way. Through media works that utilize digital software, including video, installation, sound, text, animation and photography, the exhibition reveals how artists view and artistically interpret digital media to understand the changing nature of contemporary art.
Part 1 of the exhibition, Image Puzzle, features installation works that combine photo collages, video collages and objects. Part 1 connects opposing concepts, such as two-dimensional planes and three-dimensional space, shows multiple perspectives in different places and times, and reveals the real and virtual relationship.
Part 2, Staging of a Scene, features works that deal with artificially created moments or scenes. Using various media technologies and staging methods, participating artists created works as scenes from movies or theatrical pieces.
Artificial World, the last part of the exhibition, showcases works by artists who have created surreal imaginary worlds through video, sound and image works.
The exhibition Digital Stories: We Need Narratives features the works of 40 Korean contemporary artists, including Gwon Osang, Kim Ki-ra, Ryu Ho-yeol, Park Je Sung, Park June-bum, Oh Sang-taek, Jang Seung-hyo, Jeon Jeong-eun, Jung Yeon-doo and Hong Buhm.
