Published by the Gwangju International Center since 2001
In 2014, UNESCO selected Gwangju as a “creative city” for media art. Media Artist, Park Sang-hwa
For this month, we interviewed one of the first-generation media artists who has long pioneered the path for media art. I visited the studio of artist Park Sang-hwa.
As one of Gwangju’s prominent international art events, the Gwangju Design Biennale proudly showcases designs from Gwangju artists. One of this year’s Biennale highlights are designs from Choi Tae-ok.
If you are a lover of music, especially of new releases, keep ahead of the curve with Top of the Drop. Each month, Daniel Springer, “Danno,” picks his favorite newly released tunes and gives a heads-up on upcoming albums and EPs that you might want to keep on your radar.
If you are a lover of music, especially of new releases, keep ahead of the curve with Top of the Drop. Each month, Daniel Springer, “Danno,” picks his favorite newly released tunes and gives a heads-up on upcoming albums and EPs that you might want to keep on your radar.
Artist Kim Chang-deok (김창덕), who goes by his artistic name Da-eum (다음), spends most of his time in his studio preparing for an upcoming exhibition about him, plum blossoms, beeswax, and tea.
These two artists both take as subject matter the dwellings of the alleyways and byways of the past, but as Kang discovers, they are not two peas in the same pod – no two artists are – but these two artists’ pods spring from the same pea plant.
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