Loop Lab Busan
■ Digital Subculture: – Everyone Is a Creator
- Exhibition Period: April 15 (Tue) – June 29 (Sun), 2025
- Venue: Outdoor Garden, Busan Museum of Art
- Overview:
With the advancement of digital technology blurring the boundaries between professionals and amateurs, as well as between fine art and popular culture, a new generation of digital creators has emerged.
This exhibition is divided into four sessions and features works by 46 digital creators from 25 countries around the world. The first session "Digital Abstraction" begins with the idea that the digital world is not merely a reflection of reality but a self-contained, independent realm. This section showcases digital abstract works that are distinct from traditional abstract painting.
The second session "Digital Dada" presents a new form of Dadaism rooted in digital culture. It features playful, readymade art—compositions made by reassembling online-generated images—displayed sequentially on large LED screens.
The third and fourth sessions, "Mirroring Nature" and "Mirroring Human", respectively, highlight the work of digital creators active on social media. In "Mirroring Nature", artists imagine and present utopian alternatives using digital tools while "Mirroring Human" explores representations of the human form—both real and virtual—including AI-generated virtual beings.
■ Moving on Asia
- Exhibition Period: April 20 (Sun) – June 26 (Thu), 2025
- Venue: Busan Cinema Center, Domoheon
- Overview:
Moving on Asia features a range of programs including exhibitions, screenings, and forums. The project explores the fluidity and expansiveness of technology-based video art, experimenting with diverse spatial and temporal perceptions.
The participating artists move beyond fixed geographic identities defined by nation and ethnicity, traversing the aesthetic boundaries of time and narrative to explore the complex relationships between memory, community, the body, language, and imagery from multiple perspectives. Their video works experiment with linear perceptions of time, the recombination of digital imagery, and differentiated regional identities, disrupting the familiar language of traditional cinema. Some of them presented in this program not only showcase technical experimentation but also engage with themes such as historical restoration, social reconstruction, and the primal language of the body—ultimately pushing viewers beyond the comfort zone of familiar sensory experiences.
The exhibition also experiments with dismantling the boundaries between the cinema’s black box and the gallery’s white cube, as well as between public and private realms. By reexamining how viewers engage with moving images—how they observe and dwell before them—it aims to expand the artistic and social resonance of video art in more multidimensional ways.
■ Exhibitions by Affiliated Institutions
- Exhibition Period: April 15 (Tue) – June 29 (Sun), 2025
- Venues: 23 art and cultural institutions across Busan
- Overview:
In collaboration with around 20 institutions throughout Busan, this citywide exhibition offers a simultaneous and diverse showcase of contemporary digital media art—including digital video, media art, virtual reality, and new media works.
58, APEC-ro, Haeundae-gu, Busan