Sophie Chen – Looking Outwards – 08

Drawing in the Air – Mimi Son & Elliot Woods

In this lecture, Mimi Son (South Korea) and Elliot Woods (UK) talk about their ongoing work between the realms of material and immaterial, creating visual objects that explore the unpredictable attributes of things when they interact with technology. Son and Woods founded Kimchi and Chips, an experimental art studio based in Seoul that combines the disciplines of code form, material, concept, and mechanism. Kimchi and Chips Studio creates installations and dialogues across the globe. They play with material, space and light, while developing new patterns and theories. Son and Woods are very interested in manipulating physical materials and spaces that already exist through technology. Through combining the physical materials with the immaterial (things that are not traditionally “material” – physical, visible, tangible, etc) like drawing, space, and motion, they explore and investigate new technologies, and evaluate the relationship between knowledge of reality and experience. For instance for one of their projects, they projected and mapped light to bamboo trees and created visual forms within the tree. The light triggered the growth of the trees over time as well – starting a dialogue between the trees and people. I find their work to be very thoughtful and fruitful, ultimately creating meaningful and purposeful work.

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