Korean Multimedia Music Society presents media art exhibition

20 works spanning sound art, video and more on display

Poster for the 'Dystopia — Extinguished Sounds' exhibition. [Korean Multimedia Music Society]
Poster for the 'Dystopia — Extinguished Sounds' exhibition. [Korean Multimedia Music Society]

A media art exhibition tracing the remnants of vanished sounds is set to open in Seoul.

The Korean Multimedia Music Society (SIMM) will hold the media art exhibition "Dystopia — Extinguished Sounds" from July 7 to 13 at Art Lab in Dapsimni, Seoul.

The exhibition centers on two keywords: "dystopia" and "extinguished sounds." Artists working across a range of media — computer music, sound art, video, installation and interactive media — will present 20 works.

In the exhibition, "dystopia" is not limited to a dark, ruined vision of the future, and "extinguished sounds" is not confined to a single fixed concept. The vanished sounds within the works may represent sounds that have literally become inaudible to some, while for others they expand into layered meanings — forgotten memories, severed relationships, emotions that never reached their destination, traces of spaces that no longer exist, or sensations that went unrecognized.

Participating artists — Son Seo-yul, Kim Tae-jun, Eom No-hyeong (Won Hyeong-bin), Soeum Haegeum (Yoo Ho-jeong), Y.SOOKYOUNG (Yoon Sook-young), Tae Hye-bin, Yiseh (Lee Se-yeon), Oh Ji-heon, Kim Yeon-ho, Kim Yo-han, Han Su-yong, Lee Gwan-gyu, Oh Seong-min, Lee Dong-gyu, Lee Ji-woo, Park Chan-hee, Im Jae-min, Kwon Jeong-eun and Jeong Su-jin, and Ra Gyeong, among others — transform "extinguished sounds" into visual, spatial and sensory experiences.

A SIMM official said the exhibition "approaches extinguished sounds not as mere silence, but as something to be reread through diverse perspectives that traverse memory, relationships, sensation and space — reflecting both scholarly and artistic inquiry." The official added that the society hopes "audiences will follow the works realized through different media and find a new way to sense the meaning of sounds we have failed to hear or recognize in our time."


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