"Intermediae-Minbak" project at ARCO 2007

Art Center Nabi participates ARCO, Spain
- Media workshop and exhibition for four nights
- In collaboration between Intermediae and Art Center Nabi

(Feb 14-18, 2007, Intermediae in Madrid Spain) Art Center Nabi of Korea and Intermediae of Spain jointly present project at ARCO 2007, Madrid Spain. Interaction of unique culture and people takes place at Minbak (Korean word for accommodation for temporary home stay), which an entire space can serve as a place for vivid cultural exchange. Ten Korean media artists and approximately fifty Spanish students from five art colleges in Bilbao, Cuenca and Valencia meet one another at , a soft platform where they can exchange ideas. The works themselves function as a medium and help those who gather to stimulate each other’s creativity through common experience, and forge a new relationship.

by Ji-hoon Byun brings in the wind of Pusan in real time to cause the screen installed at Minbak to flutter, while by Minha Yang invites the guests of Minbak to an interactive digital garden with the Oriental mystique. People overcome the limit of language difference and newly start to communicate via the visualization of sound through by Kichul Kim. They also allow their bodies, and furthermore their thought and culture, to mingle with each in a hope to become one in by Joon Kim and Seungjoon Choi. by Sengtak Seo, Seungjoon Choi, Jaekwan Park, Junghoon Lee provides an opportunity to make ties in other dimensions through avatars which freely move around simulated spaces of Intermediae and Art Center Nabi. Communication initiated through the medium of the metaphorical works will develop into more direct interaction at workshops. Meanwhile, a series of events that take place at Minbak along with other events at ARCO 2007 will be extended outside the exhibit space by a project titled by Woosuk Jang, Taejoong Kim and Yangachi. The separate online project is a kind of combination of Internet broadcasting and web arts.


For more information and project images: www.nabi.or.kr/minbak