Art Center Nabi

Art Center Nabi
아트센터나비

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Established	2000
Location	99 Seorin-dong, Jongno-gu, Seoul, South Korea 110-110
Type	Art museum
Director	SohYeong Roh
Website	www.nabi.or.kr

Art Center Nabi is an art museum in Jongno-gu, Seoul, South Korea. Since its opening, Art Center Nabi has actively promoted new media arts in Korea. Exploring new possibilities of creation, education, and exhibition of digital arts, Art Center Nabi has been in the forefront of the convergence of art and media technologies of the time. Roh Soh-yeong is the director.

Vision

The advance in digital media and information technology has not only changed our daily lives but also fostered a paradigm shift in art and culture. Arts, combined with new possibilities opened up by media technologies, have evolved and expanded its horizon of expression. The interactions between technology and human and the new type of cultural-artistic expressions mediated by technology require constant examination and reflection on the relations between human and technology. Art Center Nabi aims to act as an intermediary that transforms the cultural desires into vital activities. Our goal is formed around the idea of humanizing technology that technology is fully integrated with human’s cultural life to open a new space for creative practices. This can be achieved only after the fruitful collaboration and understanding among science technology, humanities and arts. Thus, Art Center Nabi maintains the following three ideas; being a 'critique' of contemporary culture independent from technological benefits; possessing 'creativity' which opens people’s mind to regard a new perspective and enables a new form of expression; creating 'community' where these ideas are shared and the new world is dreamed of.

Art Center Nabi is at the center of this new culture, where artistic sensibility is combined with the technological possibility to bring out the power of change and creativity.

Projects

2015

• Butterfly Effect: Korea-Spain(Barcelona) Connection 2015
• Nabi hackathon
• Making an emotionally responsive robot
• Wearable Technology Art Exhibition >

2014

• Wearable fashion Art Project, N.EX.T Fashion : Network,EXperiment,Technology
• Asia Networking Project
• Fashion Wearable Hackathon
• Making a sound generator
• ‘Theme-Based Cultural Diplomacy Project’, a part of the 2014 ITU Plenipotentiary Conference
• Nabi Wearable Hackathon
• Sensors and motor control with Arduino
• Exhibition Butterflies 2014
• SK Telecom Smart Beam x Media Art Party

2013

• Nabi hackathon
• Nabi hackathon
• Korean Media Art Exhibition, Seoul Conference on Cyberspace 2013
• Public art project <COMO>

2012

• Yeosu Expo SK Telecom Pavilion
• Lay-artist

2011

• Les Peintures Vivantes

2010

• This is Media Art!

2009

• Come Join Us, Mr. Orwell! Tomorrow City - Open Theater

2007

• P.Art.y
• ALICE Museum

2006

• Connected

2004

• Science station
• Love Virus Project

2003

• Liquid Space

2002

• Korea Japan Network Art 2002 Timemaker
• Wireless Art Project -Watch Out!

2001

Trialogue

recurring

• Project I: Project I 4.0(2009), Project I 3.0(2008), Project I 2.0(2006), Project I 1.0(2005)
• Dreaming Butterfly: (2005), (2004), (2001)

Education

• Education program designed and operated for elementary school and middle school students, Goyang Media Art School of Dreams
• Education Program for digital art and fabrication, Creative Mentoring Program for Young Professionals
• Education Program designed for children and their parents
• Digital Art Class for Public School
• A small group of students and faculty work closely to the intersections of code, design, hardware and theory,Technology of School

Publications

• Digital Art by Director SohYeong Roh (published in 2014) ISBN 978-89-5707-807-5
• Lay Artists (published in 2012) ISBN 978-89-954728-7-3
• 10 Years of Art Center Nabi (published in 2010) ISBN 978-89-954728-1-1

External links

• Art Center Nabi official site