[spectre] Fwd: 7th Seoul International Media Art Biennale: Spell on you

[Andreas Broeckmann]

Mediacity Seoul

The 7th Seoul International Media
Art Biennale (Mediacity Seoul 2012)

Spell on you
11 September–4 November 2012

Seoul Museum of Art
61, Deoksugung-gil (37, Seosomun-dong),
Jung-gu, Seoul 100-813

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The 7th Seoul International Media Art Biennale (Mediacity Seoul 2012) is 
  pleased to announce the list of artists and exhibition theme for 
/Spell on you/. By inviting more than 50 artists from 17 countries, this 
  exhibition will bring together an eclectic range of media art 
including  installation, film, and interactive media. The title draws 
inspiration  from 'I Put a Spell on You,' a blues song performed by 
Screamin' Jay  Hawkins, who is considered to be one of the early 
pioneers of 'Shock Rock' during the 1950s. This exhibition pays homage 
to his startling performance of this song, which expresses one's 
primordial human desire to entice and possess an other by summoning a spell.

In the light of this song, /Spell on you/ explores the recent
proliferation of new media and information technology, which is
reinforcing our obsession with control and domination through utilizing
widely accessible and immediate forms of social communication. The
exhibition's artistic director states: "It can be said that both art and 
technology can propel the influence of a 'spell,' in the sense that they 
can pull us in with overwhelming and unpredictable force." By
re-considering the power of art and new media, the exhibition will
showcase a variety of contemporary artworks set against the background
of social, cultural, and political shifts that have taken place as a
result of major technological developments in new social media.


About Seoul International Media Art Biennale

Launched in 2000 with a specific aim to enforce the image of the city
of Seoul as a capital of technological development, the Seoul
International Media Art Biennale is one of the few international
biennials with a focus on 'media art.' Previous curators have included
Misook Song, Wonil Rhee, Jin Sup Yoon, Byong Hak Ryu, Sunjung Kim, Hans
Ulrich Obrist, Jeremy Millar, Barbra London, and Yuko Hasegawa.

Hosted by the Seoul Metropolitan Government and Seoul Museum of Art,
/Spell on you/is co-organized by Jinsang Yoo, the 7th artistic director
of Seoul International Media Art Biennale (Mediacity Seoul 2012), and
three internationally renowned curators of contemporary media art;
Yukiko Shikata (Independent Curator), Olof van Winden (Director of
Netherlands Media Art Institute, NIMk), and Dooeun Choi (Former Creative 
Director of Art Center Nabi/Co-curator of Zero1 Biennale at San Jose).


Participating Artists (to be finalized)

Adel Abdessemed; Marina Abramović; Romy Achituv; Zbyněk Baladrán;
Bang&Lee; Maurice Benayoun; blablaLAB; David Bowen; Jae-eun Choi; David
Claerbout; dNA; everyware; Exonemo; Dennis Feser; Nina Fischer & Maroan
El Sani; Dominic Gagnon; Haque Design+Resarch; Jonathan Harris & Sep
Kamvar; Jenny Holzer; Hong Seung-Hye; Sungmin Hong; HYBE; Ryoji Ikeda;
Yeondoo Jung; Floris Kaayk; So Kanno & Takahiro Yamaguchi; JK Keller;
Jeong Han Kim; Kichul Kim; Won Hwa Kim; Aaron Koblin; Donghee Koo; Ryota
Kuwakubo; Robert Lepage; Alessandro Ludovico & Paolo Cirio; Daito Manabe
& Motoi Ishibashi; Nathaniel Mellors; Seiko Mikami; Joon Y. Moon; NMARA;
Till Nowak; Robert Overweg; Jon Satrom; Gordan Savičić & Bengt Sjölén;
Jonathan Schipper; Joris Strijbos; Jens Wunderling; Ji-Hyun Yoon &
Taiyun Kim; Akram Zaatari; Zimoun.