Through glitches and loops, artist probes our senses in tech-saturated world

Day by day, we find ourselves drifting deeper into flickering screens, losing touch with the tactile contours of physical reality. As our gaze sinks into the virtual, machines rise to replace our eyes in the world we leave behind: CCTV surveillance watches streets we no longer notice, light detection and ranging (LiDAR) sensors map the roads for self-driving cars we no longer steer and artificial intelligence (AI)-powered vision learns to perceive on our behalf. Artist Kwon Ah-ram, grand prize winner of the 21st SongEun Art Award, explores how these accelerated, tech-driven shifts fundamentally reshape our perceptual experience in her latest solo exhibition, “Fever Eye,” at SongEun Art Space in southern Seoul. Fittingly, the show is saturated with digital screens and AI-generated soundscapes — blinking, glitching and deliberately unstable — that overstimulate the senses, thus conjuring the fevered online delirium within the gallery’s physical space. Filling the building’s cave-like basement is “The Backrooms,” Kwon’s own take on the popular internet urban legend that imWeiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei Korea Times Weiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei Korea Times