Commissioned by Hyundai Artlab, © Sougwen Chung

Spiritual Affects Against a Secularist Grid: Rethinking Modernism and Islam/ic Art

, conference organized by the Hyundai Tate Research Centre: Transnational and the Research Center for Material Culture at the National Museum of World Cultures on February 10-11, 2023 

Commissioned by Hyundai Artlab, © Irene Suosalo

Commissioned by Hyundai Artlab, © Ezra Miller

Commissioned by Hyundai Artlab, © Zach Lieberman

, 2022. Mixed media, Dimensions variable.

Photo by Swan Park. Image provided by MMCA

 2022, Single channel essay film, color, sound (still cut).

Still from Hyundai Commission: Cecilia Vicuña: Brain Forest Quipu | Tate Perspectives Film

Artwork © Cecilia Vicuña, Film by Hyundai Motor Company

MMCA Hyundai Motor Series 2022: Choe U-Ram — Little Ark,

, 2022, recycled cardboard boxes, metallic material, machinery, electronic device (CPU board, motor), 210 x 230 x 1272 cm.

Installation photograph, “The Space Between: The Modern in Korean Art,” Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Sep 11, 2022–Feb 19, 2023.

Commissioned by Hyundai Artlab, © Katja Novitskova

Hyundai Commission: Cecilia Vicuña: Brain Forest Quipu Installation View at Tate Modern 2022.

Photo © Tate Photography (Sonal Bakrania)

Photo by RH. Image courtesy of the artist and OSL contemporary. 

Hyundai Commission: Cecilia Vicuna: Brain Forest Quipu

Commissioned by Hyundai Artlab, © Ram Han

MOON Kyungwon & JEON Joonho: Seoul Weather Station, installation view, 2022, Art Sonje Center, Seoul.

Photo: CJYART STUDIO (Cho Junyong). Image courtesy of Art Sonje Center.

A.I.-generated Artlab Guide to Seoul video by Youngkak Cho

Tavares Strachan, “ENOCH” (display unit), 2015–2017, Isolated Labs, created in collaboration with LACMA as part of the Art + Technology Lab initiative.

Yunchul Kim, Gyre at Korean Pavilion, 2022.

Courtesy of the artist. Photo by Roman März

Installation photograph, Barbara Kruger: Thinking of 

. I Mean You., Los Angeles County Museum of Art, March 20, 2022–July 17, 2022

Courtesy of The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo

Yunchul Kim, Chroma V. Korean Pavilion, 2022.

Courtesy of the artist. Photo by Roman März.

Hyundai Commission: Tania Bruguera, Tate Modern 2018

Welcome to Artlab Editorial. With interviews, reviews, essays, and profiles on today’s most compelling artists, we publish writing that offers an opportunity to better understand the past, reconsider the contemporary, and envision the future.

Artlab Editors

Hunter Braithwaite

Dawn Chan

Ezra Miller

Artlab Editorial Fellowship Committee

Zach Lieberman

Crypton

Michelle Lhooq

Shannon Lee

Scarlet Cheng

Katja Novitskova

Barry Schwabsky

Julie Baumgardner

Ram Han 

Orit Gat

Shuhua Xiong

Claire L. Evans

Andrew Russeth

Youngkak Cho

Charlotte Kent

Artlab Editorial Team

Samantha Culp

Claire Voon

Monica Uszerowicz

Dean Kissick

Wendy Vogel

Allie Biswas

Rahel Aima

Editorial

Sougwen Chung

Sougwen Chung on blurring the line between human creativity and machine learning.

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Curating While Breathing: A Q&A with Manuela Moscoso

Ongoing Poiesis: Q&A with Sougwen Chung

Hit the Road

Interweaving the Natural and Digital with Ezra Miller

Embodied Broadcast

Intimate Immensity: On Cecilia Vicuña

Keeping the Work Alive: Q&A with Nabila Abdel Nabi

The Polymathic Practice of Yunchul Kim

Deflected Gaze: The Linguistic Legacy of Barbara Kruger

Modern Korean Art: Leaping Across the Space Between

Between Text and Image: Q&A with Zach Lieberman


The Subversive Politics of Surrealism

The Final Five: Q&A with Dawn Chan and the 5th VH AWARD finalists (Part 2)


Radical Compositions: The Artlab Ecosystem

Digital Candy and Media Mimicry: Q&A with Katja Novitskova

An Institution at the Intersection: LACMA Art + Technology Lab Then, Now, and Next

Everything is Aware: The Cosmic Tapestry of Cecilia Vicuña


Working with Our Hands


Searching Beyond the Immediately Observable: Choe U-Ram at MMCA

Venice in Public, Viewing in Private

Celebrating the first year of Artlab Editorial

Temporary Deviations, Boundless Orbits: Q&A with Artist Ram Han 

The Final Five: Q&A with Dawn Chan and the 5th VH AWARD finalists (Part 1)


Touring the Future, Today

The Artlab Guide to Seoul

Virtual Horizons: Los Angeles

Fellow Travelers: New Exhibitions by MOON & JEON and Choe U-Ram

Searching for New Voices: Artlab Editorial Fellowship


The Artist as Sentinel

Enter the Labyrinth

A New Art History: How Digital Lineages Change How We Make and Own Artworks

The Cosmic Mythology of Yunchul Kim’s Venice Pavilion

Empty Shells Activated: Lost Air’s Rave Geometry

Letter from the Editors



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MMCA Hyundai Motor Series

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2022

Entangled Transparency 3.0

Art & Events

Korean Pavilion at La Biennale di Venezia Arte

LACMA Art + Technology Lab

Hyundai x Rhizome of the New Museum: World on a Wire

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Research

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2025

Hyundai Tate Research Centre: Transnational

ZKM | Karlsruhe with Hyundai Artlab and Goethe-Institut Korea

Web 3.0 Project

Hyundai Blue Prize Art+Tech

Bloomberg Brilliant Ideas

Jonathon Keats

Barbara Kruger

Barbara Kruger: Thinking of You. I Mean Me. I Mean You.

siren eun young jung

Jane Jin Kaisen

Hwayeon Nam

History Has Failed Us, But No Matter

Haegue Yang: O2 & H2O

Jung Yeondoo

Hyundai Commission: Tania Bruguera

Moon Kyungwon

Jeon Joonho

The Ways of Folding Space & Flying

Andre Breton

Wolfgang Paalen

Salvador Dali

Eileen Agar

Joyce Mansour

Manuel Alvarez Bravo

Dora Maar

Raoul Ubac

Limb Eung-sik

Leonora Carrington

Max Ernst

Léopold Senghor

Giorgio de Chirico

Simone Breton

René Ménil

Aimé and Suzanne Césaire

Wilfredo Lam

Juan Breá

Mary Low

Eugenio Granell

Carlos Mérida

Luis Cardoza y Aragón

Ted Joans

Helen Lundeberg

Alberto Giacometti

Hans Bellmer

Lionel Wendt

Claude Cahun

Georges Henein

Leon Trotsky

Frida Kahlo

Diego Rivera

David Alfaro Siqueiros

José Clemente Orozco

María Izquierdo

César Moro

Remedios Varo

Antoine Malliarakis

Kitawaki Noboru

Kurt Seligmann

Yüksel Arslan

Asger Jorn

Oscar Domínguez

Jindřich Štyrský 

Surrealism Beyond Borders

Hyundai Commission: Abraham Cruzvillegas

Mariia Fedorova

World on a Wire in Moscow