Exhibition Information

			GRAYCODE, jiiiiin, a duo of electronic music composers and artistic group respond by opening another show with a title WIWR: Weakly Interacting Weakly Reverberating in the current exhibition of Nam June Paik’s Transmission. As the title indicates, their sound installation focuses on interaction, and multiple speakers placed in the exhibition hall share a mutual system, revealing the influence they have on each other through reverberation. There are waves in the space of WIWR, where Paik's videos and on-site noise are mixed. They focuses on the variable called vibration propagating in space and models a weakly interacting and weakly reverberating system. The live performance, scheduled as the exhibition's closing event on December 2, meets the audience by maximizing the echoes of light and sound at different speeds audiovisually.

Artist
GRAYCODE, jiiiiin is a duo of electronic music composers and artists. Using air vibrations, sound pressure, and musical tension and relaxation as their artistic language, they create work that uses sound to clearly show phenomena that are real yet invisible. The chief materials in their work are speakers and hardware systems that operate as instruments, resonating with elements in physical space. The wavelengths, undulations, and reverberations that are sensed through their work operate not only on hearing but on visual and tactile experience, encouraging the listener to pay close attention to their way of hearing. A text published for their 2010 exhibition Data Composition was selected for “Best Book Design from Republic of Korea” honors by the Korean Publishers’ Association, and they also received a 2018 Giga-Hertz Award presented by the Hertz-Lab (ZKM) and the SWR broadcasting corporation in Karlsruhe, Germany. They have staged exhibitions and performances at various venues in Korea and overseas, including the Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media (YCAM) InterLab in Japan (2018), the Lunchmeat Festival in the Czech Republic (2018), the Koreanisches Kulturzentrum in Berlin (2019), and project space SARUBIA in Seoul (2020).

Random Access Project 3.0

The name Random Access originates from a work of the same name presented by Nam June Paik in his first solo exhibition, Exposition of Music—Electronic Television (1963). Random Access involves taking a magnetic audio tape out of its casing and attaching it randomly to a wall, allowing visitors to scrape the tape with a magnetic playback head to create sounds. Through Random Access project, Nam June Paik Art Center has been presenting exhibitions that reinterpret Nam June Paik's works and thoughts from 2010 to 2020 through the perspectives of contemporary artists, focusing on improvisation, indeterminacy, interaction, and participation. Nam June Paik Art Center continues Random Access Project 3.0, aiming to create a space where Paik’s experimental spirit meets contemporary art in various ways. The utilization of the art museum proposed by the young artists will become an opportunity where new names for exhibitions are discovered.


Venue
Nam June Paik Art Center Gallery 2

Date
Nov 7— Dec 3, 2023(Performance: Dec 2, 2023, 4:00pm)

Curator
Kim Yoonseo

Artist
GRAYCODE, jiiiiin

Hosted and Organized by
Nam June Paik Art Center, Gyeonggi Cultural Foundation