Loop Lab Busan, Korea's first media art festival, lights up port city

BUSAN — At F1963, a former wire factory turned cultural complex, American media artist Tony Oursler uses a giant digital maze of synchronized projections and otherworldly graphics to create a surreal experience that bends perception and space. Elsewhere in Korea’s southeastern port city, a virtual forest unfurls across the Busan Museum of Art’s (BMA) outdoor sculpture garden, where visually arresting short-form video works by 45 digital creators from around the world flicker among the trees. These two presentations are among more than 20 exhibitions launched as part of Loop Lab Busan, the country’s first-ever citywide festival dedicated entirely to media art — from digital photography and moving images to media facades and artificial intelligence (AI). Loop Lab Busan marks the inaugural Asian edition of Loop Barcelona, which began in 2003 as the world’s first platform devoted to exploring the artistic and commercial potential of moving images. The Busan edition aims to capitalize on the port city’s growing cultural reputation, shaped by global events like the Busan InternaWeiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei Korea Times Weiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei Korea Times