Bong Jung Kim John Jay President's Gallery, NYC
Bong Jung Kim is a Korean-born artist living in the New York City area. He is a skilled artist who merges discarded high-tech materials with pictures of black, blossom-like shapes that might be flowers, or more erotically, pubic hair or even female genitalia. His series is called “Addiction,” a problem with obsessively observing pornography that he candidly acknowledged in conversation. The electron parts he attaches, usually to the center of the flowers, also indicate addiction -- in this case our helpless dependence on high technology, the cyber world, and the Internet. Interestingly, the honesty with which Kim acknowledges his dependence on sex videos flies in the face of the traditional Korean culture, whose sexual probity is well known. But Kim is living and showing in America, where it is acceptable to express one’s desire openly. His "Addiction" series not only opens...
Bong Jung Kim is a Korean-born artist living in the New York City area. He is a skilled artist who merges discarded high-tech materials with pictures of black, blossom-like shapes that might be flowers, or more erotically, pubic hair or even female genitalia. His series is called “Addiction,” a problem with obsessively observing pornography that he candidly acknowledged in conversation. The electron parts he attaches, usually to the center of the flowers, also indicate addiction -- in this case our helpless dependence on high technology, the cyber world, and the Internet. Interestingly, the honesty with which Kim acknowledges his dependence on sex videos flies in the face of the traditional Korean culture, whose sexual probity is well known. But Kim is living and showing in America, where it is acceptable to express one’s desire openly. His "Addiction" series not only opens...
- 8/7/2016
- by Thalia Vrachopoulos
- www.culturecatch.com
Myung Jung Kim/Pa Archive
Memory cards, joy-sticks and whatever else you need at the ready because Steven Spielberg’s gearing up to take you on a virtual-reality roller-coaster with his adaptation of Ernest Cline’s novel Ready Player One. Press start to begin? I think so.
Variety reports the film is locked in for a December 15th 2017 release by Warner Bros and DreamWorks. It’ll be penned by Zak Penn (I didn’t even intend for that to happen), but obviously as the biggest director in the history of ever, it’s Spielberg who’s grabbing the headlines.
Ready Player One unfolds around a virtual reality universe named Oasis, which usurps the real world as the focus of human life.
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This reads like fantastic news. Spielberg always works in fits and bursts, and this latest cluster including Bridge of Spies (arriving in October), The Bfg and now...
Memory cards, joy-sticks and whatever else you need at the ready because Steven Spielberg’s gearing up to take you on a virtual-reality roller-coaster with his adaptation of Ernest Cline’s novel Ready Player One. Press start to begin? I think so.
Variety reports the film is locked in for a December 15th 2017 release by Warner Bros and DreamWorks. It’ll be penned by Zak Penn (I didn’t even intend for that to happen), but obviously as the biggest director in the history of ever, it’s Spielberg who’s grabbing the headlines.
Ready Player One unfolds around a virtual reality universe named Oasis, which usurps the real world as the focus of human life.
wikimedia.org
This reads like fantastic news. Spielberg always works in fits and bursts, and this latest cluster including Bridge of Spies (arriving in October), The Bfg and now...
- 8/7/2015
- by Daniel Kelly
- Obsessed with Film
Myung Jung Kim/Pa Archive
Twice yearly Queen Elizabeth II, as monarch of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, publishes a list of the names of those she is going to bestow honours upon – including the people who are going to be knighted.
At New Year and on the Queen’s official birthday in June, the list of the new “sirs” and “dames” – as well as those receiving other appointments to the Order of the British Empire – are announced, with the most-recent group including actor John Hurt and ChildLine founder Esther Rantzen.
However, there is a prestigious list of names of those who have rejected the chance to be knighted – including some of the best-loved actors, musicians, artists, writers and inventors – for varying reasons, some to much acclaim, others to much criticism.
The majority of rejections have been made privately, although there are a select few examples whereby the person has...
Twice yearly Queen Elizabeth II, as monarch of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, publishes a list of the names of those she is going to bestow honours upon – including the people who are going to be knighted.
At New Year and on the Queen’s official birthday in June, the list of the new “sirs” and “dames” – as well as those receiving other appointments to the Order of the British Empire – are announced, with the most-recent group including actor John Hurt and ChildLine founder Esther Rantzen.
However, there is a prestigious list of names of those who have rejected the chance to be knighted – including some of the best-loved actors, musicians, artists, writers and inventors – for varying reasons, some to much acclaim, others to much criticism.
The majority of rejections have been made privately, although there are a select few examples whereby the person has...
- 2/26/2015
- by Chris Waugh
- Obsessed with Film
Bong Jung Kim has a very deliberate and consistent way of working. His intention, which is navigated through bold combinations and contentious juxtapositions of symbols, mixes metaphors as he vies for a deeper cord in our psyches. He is primal with respect to color and technique, yet he tells his tale with references to the darker side of the collective contemporary social condition and our quick to throw away and ever-upgrading technology.
To help unravel Bong Jung Kim’s iconography I posed a few questions that I hope will get to the heart of his content.
Ddl: Let’s begin with some of your earliest works, images of your studio and your various subjects and self-portraits executed in the 1980s. These, in many ways, are the most conventional with respect to media, technique, and representation. Yet, despite those rather familiar elements, you still managed to represent the figure as more than just a physical being.
To help unravel Bong Jung Kim’s iconography I posed a few questions that I hope will get to the heart of his content.
Ddl: Let’s begin with some of your earliest works, images of your studio and your various subjects and self-portraits executed in the 1980s. These, in many ways, are the most conventional with respect to media, technique, and representation. Yet, despite those rather familiar elements, you still managed to represent the figure as more than just a physical being.
- 12/10/2014
- by ddlombardi
- www.culturecatch.com
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