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2 September - 31 October 2000
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Seoul Metropolitan Museum of Art
(2002 renamed Seoul Museum of Art)
Seoul 600 Year Commemoration Hall
13 subway stations throughout Seoul
42 electronic billboards throughout Seoul
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| Theme: |
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city between 0 and 1 (see introduction)
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Media Art 2000
Exhibition in the Seoul Metropolitan Museum of Art, curated by Barbara London and Jeremy Millar.
Theme: E-scape
Works by 45 renowned media artists from Korea and abroad, including Laurie Anderson, Matthew Barney, Guo-Qiang Cai, Stan Douglas, Gary Hill, Young Jim Kim, Bul Lee, Steve McQueen, Bruce Nauman, Tony Oursler, Nam June Paik, Rosemarie Trockel, Bill Viola, Jane and Louise Wilson, Cary Young.
City Vision
Works by artists on 42 electronic billboards throughout Seoul (incl. Christian Boltanski, Zaha Hadid, Pipilotti Rist). Curator: Hans Ulrich Obrist.
Subway Project
Media artworks at 13 subway stations, curated by Byoung Hak Ryu. Except for the German artist Bernd Halbherr, all participating artists and artists' groups were Korean, incl. Kyunga Ham, Haemin Kim, Kunyong Lee, Junmok Lee, SUPRARTIST and Cleaning Project.
Digital Alice
Seoul Metropolitan Museum of Art. Experimental educational programs for children (based on "Alice in Wonderland"), curated by Shin Eui Park.
Media Entertainment
Seoul 600 Year Commemoration Hall. Curated by Chang Ik Jang of Magic I Entertainment, various programs introduced the audiences to production processes of the high-tech media industry.
Academic Programs
Four academic forums at the Seoul Metropolitan Museum of Art Auditorium. Theme: Urban Culture in the 21st Century.
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| Artistic director: |
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Misook Song
Professor for art history at Sungshin Women's University in Seoul. Since 1991, President of the Korean Society for Western Art History. Vice-Director of the Samsung Museum of Modern Art in Seoul. In 1999, she was responsible for the South Korean pavilion at the Venice Biennale.
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| Curators: |
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Barbara London
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Jeremy Millar
Artist and Curator, London
Hans Ulrich Obrist
Le Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris
Byoung Hak Ryu
Independent curator from South Korea, lives in Germany
Shin Eui Park
Art historian and critic, South Korea
Chang Ik Jang
Magic I Entertainment Co. Ltd.
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| Participants: |
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see individual projects
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| Organizers: |
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see our start page media_city seoul |
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Note:
This overview has been compiled from information from the website of media_city seoul 2000, which is no longer online, as well as from other sources. We do not assume responsibility regarding the correctness of this information. The spelling of Korean names has been adapted to the internationally most common form - first name followed by last name.
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