COMO&HAPPY SCREEN_APRIL 2020 《The Garden of Your Mind》

2020. 04. 01. – 2020. 04. 30

Exhibition Venue & Open Hours

[COMO]

SKT-Tower, Euljiro 1-ga Exit no.4 / Daejeon SKT Dunsan Bldg

08:30 ~ 21:00

[HAPPY SCREEN]

4F, SK building, 26, Jong-ro, Jongno-gu, Seoul

09:00 ~ 18:00

*Closed on weekends and public holidays

Entry Fee  Free

Organizer  Art Center Nabi, SK Telecom, SK Innovation

ARTIST  Marpi Studio

Exhibition Inquiry  02 2121 1031

<Exhibition Statement>

The screen connecting the space and nature reminds of our lively society. The outbreak of COVID-19 brought social and physical distance worldwide, and Art Center Nabi intends to narrow down the distance between each one of our mind through Desert Series(2020) by Marpi Studio at COMO&HAPPY SCREEN The Garden of Your Mind Exhibition this April.

Desert Series(2020) is a digital artificial ecology that the natural environment and algorithm interact. It questions how we, as social being, shall cultivate the world, through projecting the vital power of the nature optically on the functional space; the structure.

The series of work greet us with different figures in each space. COMO gives expectation to present energy to our society through the stem movements blessing and getting ready for the beginning of the lives greeting the spring. In HAPPY SCREEN, the kinetic sensor invites the audience virtual desert. The structure on the screen embodying as well as social fabric and fundament of life in the present represents the publicness of our society, while the colorful artificial lives that freely swimming make us think of our energetic and beautiful hopes. The work tells us the balance and harmony in our lives, by showing the gathering of all the composition of virtual lives such as plants, relations, spaces and all with the appearance of the audience at once.

Vitality and alive space are just right where we are now. The artist gives message that the nature and life, human and technology and architecture and art are all matter of endless social connection with coexistence and symbiosis, especially now where the whole world is one mind. We hope to present small comfort with reminding of what the world is composed of, as well as hoping to have the energy back away from worries and anxiety with the power of hopeful spring.

<Artwork Description>

<Desert Series>(2020), Video, interactive installation, mobile app, kinetic sensor.

Ⓒ Marpi Studio All Rights Reserved.

Desert Series(2020) is digital environment simulation applying various algorithm seeming like artificial living things are actually living in the structure. In other words, by highly emphasizing the reality in details to bring illusion as reality in intention; Trompe l’oeil; the reflection of the story the artist telling us is reappeared in the structure using optical illusion methods. It is now under development on technology to observe artificial lives in any angle using hologram to ultimately to bring vitality to public places presenting complete digital overlay on the structures in our cities.

3D Artist: Will Atwood

Operations: Christian Boullon

<About the Artist>

Marpi is a Polish artist based in San Francisco. He mostly works on extensible interactive art in various platforms digital or physical spaces at Marpi Studio. He is now focusing on the design and establishment of vast digital environment including environment and living things that are created and developed by the users. His goal is to input various worlds such as sounds, gestures or textures to create completely new figure of life and world.

https://www.marpi.studio

Exhibition Manager HyeIn Jeon

Exhibition Curator Heeyoon Choi

Exhibition Coordinators Haerin Do, Junho Choi

Promotion Yunji Choi

Design Yukyung Chung

Video Editing, Transmission HoMan Kwon, Junho Choi