Kim Yunchul

Artist, composer of electroacoustic music and founder of Studio Locus Solus in Seoul. His latest works focus on the artistic potential of fluid dynamics, metamaterials (photonic crystals) and especially in the context of magnetohydrodynamics. His works have been shown internationally including: FACT, Liverpool; ZKM, Germany; Ars Electronica, Austria; International Triennial of New Media Art, China; VIDA15.0, Spain; Transmediale, Germany; ISEA, Germany; and New York Digital Salon, among others. Kim was the winner of the Collide International Award 2016, CERN, and was awarded third prize at VIDA 15.0, Vida Foundation in 2013. He has received fellowships from renowned institutions and organizations such as Ernst Schering Foundation, Edith-Russ-Haus for Media Arte . He is a member of the art and science project group Fluid Skies and Liquid Things, an art research project at the Department of Art and Science at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, Austria.

Participates in Medialab Madrid with the online digital installation Void (Traffic, 2003), visualization of the flow of information segregated by a single Internet server. Its incessant traffic raises cascades of signs, trees that rise like pulsating organisms, living tides of digital signals. Visual and sound poetry in ASCII code.