Exhibition Information

			The National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea Dawon Arts 2021: Multiverse is an attempt to ask and reason for aspects of society that are rapidly changing due to technological advances through various forms of art and technology. The project will actively utilize or critically approach recent technologies and experiment with the visual, temporal, physical, and spatiality proposed by these technologies and contemporary art. A total of 6 teams of writers including Kwon Hayoon, Kimchim & Chips, Seo Hyunseok, Ahn Jungjoo/Jeon Sojung, Jung Geumhyung, and Hoonida Kim will participate, and they will use new AI (LDAR) to recognize and control the driving environment.

The keyword of the multi-purpose art program is "Multiverse." The multiverse theory, which says that there are many universes besides our universe, began in physics and is recently used in popular cultures such as SF novels and movies. Multiverse, which considers all possible universes, is a question of "substance" and a change of perspective on the world.
The word "UNI-verse" includes "uniqueness" and "everything," which is a contradiction in itself, but recent physics and several cutting-edge technologies have revealed that the world is part of something larger and more covert, not all of what we think it is. Quantum mechanics explains that there are several overlapping but different universes with the same but different history, even "multiple me" in parallel universes. The development of technology mentions that artificial consciousness (a new sense and another subject) and a perfectly simulated environment (a simulation universe) are not impossible.

Art is similar too. It has long created another world, experimented with the (im)possibility of new senses and perceptions, and has always suspected fixed subjects. The six-writer monthly program is an attempt to form a parallel universe, make fiction real, reveal the limits of our rationality that can only be recognized through sensory institutions, bind the world to the world, and bring the reality down from the abstract world of technology to the art world of art. The multiverse is the pluralistic universe, and technology and art may be the words connecting different worlds. Of course, the universe reveals flaws and anomalies, and technology and art do not hide gaps and joints between worlds.