Exhibition Information

			The Sejong Center for the Performing Arts will hold the sound art "Data Composition" at the Sejong Center's two museums for 50 days from January 15, 2021 (Friday) to March 5, 2021. The exhibition is the result of the first public offering project containing the will of the Sejong Center for the Performing Arts to approach it as an "open space." The contest drew attention as it showed the Sejong Center for the Performing Arts as an "Open Art Museum" in that it provides exhibition planners and artists operating in Korea with the opportunity to freely utilize the Sejong Museum's exhibition space and fully supports the budget related to the exhibition that selected creators will realize. In the contest, a total of 48 teams participated, sound artists duo GRAYCODE, jiiiin (Cho Tae-bok, Jung Jin-hee) was finally selected, and the two composers will provide a new opportunity to see the world in 2021 where we will live through the sound art exhibition "Data Composition".

With the outbreak of the coronavirus, our lives have changed to something we've never seen before. Individual activities were recorded in virtual space through QR codes, and invisible virtual systems were able to monitor us. We can't measure the reality of virtual space, so we can only guess its vast scale and complex mechanisms, recalling an unknown world like the universe. But for humans living in the 21st century, data is as natural as air. The same is true of the figures called big data. Healthcare, science and technology have long been digitized, and the number of data accumulated daily through SNS is also staggering. In fact, the fact that Facebook has more pixel data than all pixels processed by Kodak over decades proves this. After all, we are exposed to an unimaginable amount of information in the past. The interaction of data derived from our behavior constantly reproduces another new thing.

"Data Composition" guides us to this abyss of data that surrounds us but is not measurable. The exhibition space filled with audio-visual data constantly stimulates the hearing and vision of visitors, and visitors who visit this place become part of big data through the time they spend on linked web pages. Data that interacts with visitors evolve as it accumulates continuously. It creates clear influences and changes in audiovisual elements that resonate slowly and closely in the exhibition hall, though not immediately. New changes due to current activities open up infinite possibilities for the future beyond past revival. The constant accumulation and unpredictability of big data represent the lives of mankind in this era. The changes everyone has made together will reach the eyes and ears of other visitors who visited the exhibition hall over time. At the end of the 50-day exhibition, the data will be a single album. In other words, it is a self-composed song by all of us now that we are living in 2021.

The exhibition is the result of various senses such as vision and hearing that solve the current social phenomenon and the artist's reasons for its trajectory. And the result will be expanded to a work that can communicate with the audience and presented as an exhibition. It will serve as a small opportunity to gauge the echoes of the world we live in through "Data Composition".