Profiles

2010 ~ Present President, Italy National University of Restoration and Jesus

2005 ~ 2010 Professor, College of Art, Hongik University

1986 ~ 1993 Organizing Committee of the Italian Cultural Association, Director of the Italian Cultural Research Institute

1986 ~ 1993 Prepared for the Korean Pavilion at the Venice Biennale

Awards

2010 ~ present Emilio Greco Grand Prize Italy Critic Grand Prize

2005 ~ 2010 Sibelius Grand Prize, Best Foreign Art Award

1986 ~ 1993 Best Artist Award at the European Art Contest hosted by the Italian Ministry of Culture

Selected Artworks

Casa di Dante Museum-Paintings

Accademia Museum of Florence (one of the top three galleries with the David statue) – paintings

Uffizi Art Museum (Medichiga Art Museum)-Painting works

Vatican Museum of Modern Art-Sculpture

Profiles

Selected Artworks

Main collection

OECD (Economic Cooperation and Development Organization), Paris, France / National Contemporary Art Foundation, Paris, France / Cartier Foundation, Paris, France Hewlett-Packard Foundation, Paris, France / BNP Paris Bar Bank, Paris, France / National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul Ventilation Foundation , Seoul / Samsung Life, Seoul / Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul / Daegu Museum of Art, Seoul / Gyeongnam Provincial Museum, Changwon Daegu MBC Broadcasting Station, Daegu / EXCO, Daegu / Crown Haitai Headquarters, Seoul / Ajou University School of Medicine / Korea University College of Medicine / POSCO, Seoul / Daewoo Securities, Seoul / Korea Dyeing Technology Research Institute, Daegu / Gwangju City Hall, Gwangju, etc.

Profiles

2005	Thesis Advisor at School of Visual Art in Computer Art, NY
2004	M.P.S from Tisch, NYU, in the Interactive Telecommunication Program
1996 ~ 1998	A lecturer at Hansung University
1994 ~ 1998	A lecturer at Myongji University
1994 ~ 1996	A lecturer at Yeungnam University
1994	Hongik University Graduate School of Visual Design
1991	Department of Visual Design, Hongik University

Selected Artworks

2006	The Network of Memory and Play, Jeju  Daum Global Media Center / Byte Into Space, Bitform Gallery
2005	Beyond Stills, New York Video Art Screening, Gallery Korea / IMC EXPO, New York Chelsea Art Museum / PixelAche 2005, Helsinki Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art / WIRED NextFest, Chicago Navy Pier / Ars Electronica Festival 2005, Austria Ars Electronica Center
2004	Ask the Robot Performance, New York Frying pann / ITP Spring Show 2004, New York University / Robot Rebellion Performance, New York Frying pann / Juan Media Festival, Incheon / Rhizome ArtBase / ArtPort @, Whitney Museum of American Art / Compact Impact Media Art Show , New York
2003	Live Art Chicago, Chicago COM gallery / Net Art on the Wall, Marronnier Park / ITP Winter Show 2003, New York University
2002	August Art Exhibition, NY / Living Furniture, Stone & Water Gallery / Media City_Seoul 2002 -cyber mind 'HEXA' net project / Pixxelpoint 2002 Exhibition, Slovenia Nova Gorica / Net Art, Seoul Museum of Art
2001	Module, Web-art exhibition (www.blindsound.com/module) / Korea Web-Art Festival (www.koreawebart.org/2001/interactivity.html) / Rhizome ArtBase exhibition
2000	script, Web-art exhibition (www.blindsound.com/script)
1997	Job-Ill / Young Graphic Artists of the Year, Walkerhill Museum
1996	Bone Exhibition
1995 ~ 1996	Azalea Exhibition

KIMCHI and CHIPS studio is a Seoul based art studio founded in 2009 by Mimi Son (KR) and Elliot Woods (EN). Their practice begins at the recognition that the arts, sciences and philosophy are not distant disciplines which must be bridged, but act as alternative maps onto the same territory, and that employing these maps in tandem allows the territory to be navigated more readily.

Their installation series ‘Drawing in the Air’ was a study of mass and space-time. It brought together the relativistic mechanics of Einstein, the duration oriented philosophy of Buddhism and the divide between reality and images which has escalated to a dilemma within contemporary western politics. This series culminated in the public artwork Halo at Somerset House which brought the sun down to earth in a heady alchemy of technology and nature. 99 robotic mirrors reflected sunlight into a cloud of water during the height of summer to create drawings out of sunlight under the chaotic control of the weather and Copernican dynamics.

Their research-based approach has caused them to give the ‘first word’ on a number of artistic formats both conceptually and in execution - specifically within the fields of volumetric images in fog and 3D projection onto non-designed forms. Consequently, they became the first Korean artists to win the Award of Distinction at Ars Electronica signifying their importance within the field of media art. By releasing their techniques online as over 100 open source code libraries, countless other practitioners have adopted the studio’s understanding and incorporated it into their own work.

Profiles

 

Mimi Son (KR) was born in Seoul where currently she lives and works.

An obsession with geometry and Buddhist philosophy inspires her to articulate space and time from various perspectives. This continuous experiment has allowed her to create installation that aims to depict an intersection of art and technology, material and immaterial, real and virtual, presence and absence. Over the past decade she has worked as a designer, professor, storyteller, curator, and artistic director in various countries and institutions.

Elliot Woods (UK) is a digital media artist from Manchester UK.

He graduated with a Masters from the School of Physics and Astronomy and entered the arts following the founding of studio Kimchi and Chips in 2009 where he currently tests alternative relationships between images and reality. Here he participates in conceptual and technical design of projects, and develops techniques in computer vision, machine learning and robotics. His works reveal the implicit nature of systems therein suggesting to audiences revelatory experiences about nature and reality. He has created large scale light field art installations which draw floating images of the sun out of sunlight, or moons from 600 calibrated projector beams. Elliot has contributed to the openFrameworks and VVVV creative coding platforms and has released over 100 open source libraries for free on GitHub.

Awards

2018 Media Architecture Biennale, Nominee of Spatial Media Art

2017 Prix Ars Electronica, Award of Distinction

2015 Prix Ars Electronica, Honorary Mention

2015 DARC Awards, Winner of Light Art Category

2014 Media Architecture Biennale, Winner of Spatial Media Art

2014 18th Japan Media Art Festival, Jury Selection

2012 Imagine Science Films Festival, Official Selection

Selected Artworks

2019 Line Segments Space - ZKM, DE

2018 483 Lines 2nd Edition - GAM, Beijing CN

Acoustic Vessel Odyssey - SxSW Sony Pavilion, Austin US

Halo - Somerset House Ed. J. Safra Fountain Court London UK

2017 Light Barrier 2nd Edition - Arts Electronica, Linz AT

2016 Light Barrier 3rd Edition - ACC, KR

2015 Lunar Surface The Incinerator - Bucheon Art Bunker B39, KR

Profile

Graduated from the Department of French Language and Literature, Konkuk University.

In 1994, she made her acting debut in a musical called Subway Line 1

studied abroad at the European Jazz School CIM and earned the Jazz Vocal Diploma with excellent results.

Graduated from the Department of Vocal Music at the National Conservatory of Beauvais, France

From 2000 to 2001, the first Asian Professor at CIM.

2004 1st Korean Popular Music Best Crossover Award

In 2005, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism won the Young Artist Award of the Day in the Public Art Division.

Awards 

2015	Golden Disk Award in France [Lento]
2014	Korea Image Award, Flower Stone Award
2014	33rd Sejong Culture Award
2014	2013 Hanbul Culture Award
2014	The 11th Korean Popular Music Awards, Best Jazz Crossover Jazz Record Award [LENTO]
2013	Golden Disk Award in Germany [Lento]
2012	The 3rd Pop Culture Awards Prime Minister's commendation
2012	Golden Disk Award in France [Same Girl]
2011	The 8th Korea Best Pop Music Jazz Crossover Jazz Album, Winner
2011	The winner of Eco-Jazz foreign female artists of the year
2010	BMW Welt Jazz Award, Second prize
2009	6th Korea Best Pop Music Jazz Album Award
2009	Chevaliers of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres
2005	The winner of Antibes ‘Jazz a Juan’
2005	The winner of Today's popular music Awards Young Artist Award
2004	The 1st Korea Pop Music Awards for Best Crossover
1999	The winner of France St-Maur Jazz (France)
1999	Concours national de jazz de la Défense (France), Special Jury Prize
1998	Festival de Jazz de Montmartre (France), Second prize
1989	The winner of Chanson competition (French Cultural Center, South Korea)

Profiles

YoonJeong Heo, geomungo performer, composer and professor is active as a soloist who cuts across various genres, expanding the possibilities of geomungo and Korean music by grafting together different genres that include traditional music, impromptu music, and contemporary music. She has had impromptu performances with artists at the "Voice of Asia -Free Music Festival," concert tours in Germany, England, France, United States, China, Japan, Poland and other countries. For example, she has numerous big stage performance experiences, such as the duo concert with the renowned German composer/performer Stephan Micus; solo concerts with San Jose Chamber Orchestra, KBS Gugak Orchestra, and the celebration concerts for the 120th anniversary of Korea-France relations.

She received the Ministry of Culture prize in 1986, the “Most Cultural Prize" in the field of Korean Traditional Music sponsored by the 1996 Year of Cultural Organization Committee and a fellowship from the Asian Cultural Council, which is supporting her 2007-2008 residency in New York City. She is an art director of Bukchon Changwoo Theather and the leader of world music ensemble ‘Black String’.

Selected Artworks

2016	ACT
Dec 16 2016	[MosaiKorea] Yoon Jeong Heo & Black String Madrid, Spain
Nov 5 2016	Black string record release commemorative performance Hongdae Veloju (VELOSO)
Oct 20 2016	[Black String] WOMEX WOMEX 16 Santiago de Compostela, Spain Official Showcase
Oct 22 2016	Belgium
Oct 9 2016	Taichung Jazz Festival Taiwan
Aug 23 2016	Incheon Coffee Concert, Incheon Culture & Arts Center
Jun 1 2016	[Black String]  O-Nyu-Wal Sympathy Korean Traditional Music Concert
Jun 1 2016	Platform Changdong 61 Platform61
	Hongdae VELOSO

Profiles

JoongAng University Department of Sculpture at the College of Arts / Conservatorio Joaquin Turina de Madrid, SPAIN Classical guitar department (2003)

official photographer at National Theatre, National Gugak Center, Jarasum International Jazz Festival, professional photographer of a traditional and public performing arts and travel photographer

Appeared on the TV program named ‘EBS World Theme Tour in Spain, Chile, Panama, Venezuela, Peru’

Awards

Present	official photographer of Jarasum International Jazz Festival, National Gugak Center, National Theater and Traditional Performing Arts Promotion Foundation
2016	Jazz World Photo, 2nd prize in Czech Republic
2016	Czech Jazz World Photo Contest Silver Award
2013	HARMONIZE (Gahoe-dong 60, Seoul) Solo Exhibition
2011	EMPATHIE (Galleryis, Seoul) Solo Exhibition
2011	EMPATHIE (Espresso House, Seoul) Solo Exhibition

Selected Artworks

2013	‘Beyond the Sound' Jincheon Bell Museum
2013	‘Harmonaize’
2011	‘Emphathie’, Galleryis

Profiles

1995	graduated from M.I (Musicians Instittute) G.I.T

Album

2013	VELFA's second single album (CLOSE)
2012	VELFA (Electro Duo) digital EP album (BugsCAST, Hyundai Card Music)
2010	One Man Band "YEONO" album(Neurosis)
2000	Fusion Jazz Band (S.T.E.P.S) album

Selected Artworks

2002 ~ present	write and arrange many advertising music such as Samsung’s and Daewoo’s
2001 ~ present	a lecturer at the Seoul Practical Music Academy (guitar, midi, ensemble)
2000 ~ 2002	a lecturer at Yeoju University Practical Music Course
2000 ~ 2002	formed a jazz rock band,”BONER” with Seo Young-do, Lee Do-heon
1999 ~ 2000	fusion Jazz band collaborated with Korean traditional music band called Kim Deok-soo Samulnori and Nanjang
1998 ~ 2000	Participated in Uljin Jazz Festival (S.T.E.P.S & BONER)
1996 ~ 2002	performed at Many jazz clubs including All That Jazz, Club Evans, Live Jazz Club ”Chunnyun”, etc.
1996 ~ 2000	a lecturer at the Seoul Jazz Academy guitar department
2018	Youtube channel "YeoNo”
2018	"POWWOW" artist ambassador to Seoul ("SEOUL" AMBASSADOR)
2018	Invited and performed as an artist at TMOF-( Tokyo Modular Festival)
2015	a lecturer in Computer music and sound design curriculum production at the International College of Arts
2014	Korean Academy of Arts Practical Music and Lecture
2013	VELFA's second single album released (CLOSE)
2012	Released digital EP album with VELFA (Electro Duo) (BugsCAST, Hyundai Card Music)
2011	8th Jarasum Jazz Festival performance
2010	"YeoNo (Neoosis)-Neurosis" was awarded for Naver Today's Music Netizen Selected Album
2010	Selected as the first artist for the' MAP' which was a supporting-artist project at the Munrae Art Factory
2002	Changed the band (BONER) into a one-man band system and focused on performance in Hongdae Clubs
2000	"MMjazz" Selected as Best Jazz Musician of the Year
1998	Fusion Jazz Band (S.T.E.P.S) formed with Seo Young-do, Park Ji-woon and Park Chul-woo
1998	Participated in the Sejong Cultural Center Seoul Jazz Festival (S.T.E.P.S)