Ayoung Kim and art of speculative world-building in AI era

At first glance, it’s easy to cast Ayoung Kim as a quintessential digital trailblazer, her practice seemingly rooted on the frontier of tech-driven art. After all, her much-acclaimed “Delivery Dancer” series draws on generative artificial intelligence (AI), motion capture and game engines to conjure a futuristic, labyrinthine Seoul — a cityscape where female delivery workers navigate the hyper-demanding gig economy, their every move governed by master algorithms. In this high-octane world, space and time can be, quite literally, “snapped and folded” to maximize efficiency. And as the narrative unfolds across three video installments, it eventually extends into a distant future, set within a vast terrain called Novaria. It’s this audacious vision that made her the first Korean artist to win the Golden Nica at the 2023 Prix Ars Electronica, followed by the inaugural ACC Future Prize and, most recently, the $100,000 LG Guggenheim Award. To celebrate her achievement, LG screens Kim's "Delivery Dancer" on its electronic billboard in New York's Times Square from April 28 to MayWeiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei Korea Times Weiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei Korea Times