The 3rd VH AWARD: Youngkak Cho “Highway like A Shooting Star”
The 3rd VH AWARD: Youngkak Cho “Highway like A Shooting Star”
The 3rd VH AWARD: Youngkak Cho “Highway like A Shooting Star”
The 3rd VH AWARD: Youngkak Cho “Highway like A Shooting Star”
About the Video
"Highway like a Shooting Star" explores the idea of roads as witnesses to civilizations, and the most innate of human systems. The artist presented an AI machine-learning algorithm with diverse depictions of roads, which in turn created a work completed it via intervention of the other, sans a human emotive presence. By hypothesizing the process and outcome where machines or technological systems become leading bodies in a future society, the artist beckons visitors to consider what roles and significance human beings will embody in this not-so distant future.
The 3rd VH AWARD: Highway like A Shooting Star by Youngkak Cho. Provided by HYUNDAI MOTOR GROUP VH AWARD
About the Program
The VH AWARD supports emerging media artists who engage with the context of Asia through an online residency program and exhibitions of commissioned artworks across various global platforms. Initiated in 2016, the VH AWARD has been discovering and cultivating promising artists to share their artistic experiments and amplify their voices on diverse issues. The award encourages artists who push the boundaries of audiovisual artworks to reflect on how we understand ourselves and one another in relation to the past, present and future. To amplify and share their voices with broader communities, the artworks commissioned by the VH AWARD have been exhibited in partnership with various art institutions and platforms, including the Vision Hall of Hyundai Motor Group in Yongin, South Korea; the Ars Electronica Festival in Linz, Austria; the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Nusantara in Jakarta, Indonesia; the National Arts Council in Singapore; the House of Electronic Arts in Basel, Switzerland; and the Elektra Virtual Museum.