Kimchi and Chips
Kimchi and Chips
Kimchi and Chips is an art and technology studio based in Seoul, South Korea. It was founded in 2009 by South Korean artist Mimi Son and British artist Elliot Woods. The studio produces large-scale installations that explore the relationship between technology, nature, and human perception.<ref name="FvF">{{cite web |last=root |date=2019-08-02 |title=Seoul-based light artists Kimchi and Chips conjure form at the edge of materiality |url=https://www.friendsoffriends.com/art/seoul-based-light-artists-kimchi-and-chips-conjure-form-at-the-edge-of-materiality/ |website=Friends of Friends / Freunde von Freunden |access-date=2025-04-12}}</ref>
Biography
Mimi Son is a South Korean artist and co-founder of Kimchi and Chips. Her practice incorporates natural phenomena, light, and altered perspectives to explore the boundary between physical and virtual experiences. Recurring themes in her work include dualities such as life and death, day and night, and the individual versus the collective. She has also contributed to academia and curatorial projects through lectures, workshops, and exhibitions in educational and artistic contexts.<ref name="Onassis">{{cite web |title=Kimchi and Chips – Artist Profile |url=https://www.onassis.org/people/kimchi-and-chips |website=Onassis Foundation |access-date=2025-04-12}}</ref>
Elliot Woods is a British artist and co-founder of the studio. He received a master's degree from the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Manchester. Woods works primarily with computer vision, machine learning, robotics, and light-based technologies, often focusing on human perception in relation to natural and artificial environments. He has also been active in the open-source creative coding community.<ref name="Onassis" />
Practice
The studio integrates conceptual and technical approaches to media art, working with software programming, electromechanical systems, optical engineering, structural design, and artificial intelligence. Many of their projects involve long-term, research-based development processes.[1]
Recognition
Kimchi and Chips is noted for its use of volumetric imagery and projection techniques in unconventional environments. Its Light Barrier series (2014–) employed light field projection in scattering media to generate volumetric images.<ref>{{cite web |title=Light Barrier |url=https://j-mediaarts.jp/en/award/light-barrier/ |website=Japan Media Arts Festival |access-date=2025-02-16}}</ref> The project received an Award of Distinction at Ars Electronica, reportedly marking the first time Korean artists were honored with the distinction.<ref>{{cite web |title=World's best media architecture awarded |url=https://www.mediaarchitecture.org/worlds-best-media-architecture-awarded/ |website=Media Architecture Biennale |access-date=2025-02-16}}</ref>
The studio has contributed over 200 open-source libraries to creative coding platforms including openFrameworks and VVVV.<ref name="Onassis" /> Its works have been exhibited at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Seoul, ZKM Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe, Somerset House in London, Ars Electronica in Linz, and the Onassis Foundation in Athens.<ref name="Onassis" />
Notable works
- Reworld Pavilion – Exhibited at the 4th Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism, this speculative architectural structure incorporated AI-generated mosaics and environmental data to explore alternative urban futures.<ref name="Onassis" />
- Collective Behaviour – A collaboration with choreographer Simone Wierød, the work investigated the relationship between individual and collective identity using reflective materials and optical effects.<ref name="Onassis" />
- Images that change the way we see – A lecture presented at the 2022 KIKK Festival, addressing the role of image-based technologies in shaping collective imagination.<ref name="Onassis" />
Another Moon
Another Moon (2023) at Llum BCN Festival in Barcelona, Spain.
Another Moon (2023) at Llum BCN Festival in Barcelona, Spain.
Another Moon (2017–2023) – An outdoor installation projecting a virtual moon using laser beams and stored sunlight. It premiered at Zeche Zollverein in Germany and was later presented at the Llum BCN Festival in Barcelona.<ref name="Onassis" />
Halo
Halo (2018) at Somerset House in London, United Kingdom.
Halo (2018) at Somerset House in London, United Kingdom.
Halo (2018) – First exhibited at Somerset House in London, this installation employed 99 robotic mirrors that tracked the sun and projected light into mist to form circular patterns.<ref name="Onassis" />
Lunar Surface – Installed in a decommissioned incinerator in Bucheon, South Korea, the work used projection and a silk flag to simulate a floating moon, incorporating 3D tracking and long-exposure photography.<ref name="Onassis" />
Link
Kimchi and Chips’ first work, Link (2010) at Design Korea 2010, COEX in Seoul, South Korea.
Kimchi and Chips’ first work, Link (2010) at Design Korea 2010, COEX in Seoul, South Korea.
Link (2010) – The studio’s debut work, shown at Design Korea in Seoul, featured an interactive cardboard cityscape where participants could record personal narratives. It explored communication technologies embedded in everyday materials.<ref name="Onassis" />
Awards
- 2019 – Jury Selection, Japan Media Arts Festival (with Evala)<ref>{{cite web |title=Acoustic Vessel Odyssey |url=https://j-mediaarts.jp/en/award/acoustic-vessel-odyssey/ |website=Japan Media Arts Festival |access-date=2025-02-16}}</ref>
- 2018 – Nominee, Spatial Media Art, Media Architecture Biennale<ref>{{cite web |title=World's best media architecture awarded |url=https://www.mediaarchitecture.org/worlds-best-media-architecture-awarded/|website=Media Architecture Biennale |access-date=2025-02-16}}</ref>
- 2017 – Award of Distinction, Prix Ars Electronica<ref>{{cite web |title=MMCA Performing Arts 2021: Multiverse |url=https://mmca.go.kr/upload/publication/2021/MMCA_Performing_Arts_2021.pdf |website=National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art |access-date=2025-02-16}}</ref>
- 2015 – Honorary Mention, Prix Ars Electronica<ref>{{cite web |title=Prix Ars Electronica 2015 |url=https://archive.aec.at/prix/2015/ |website=Ars Electronica Archive |access-date=2025-02-16}}</ref>
- 2015 – Winner, Light Art Category, Darc Awards<ref>{{cite web |title=Darc Awards 2015 Brochure |url=https://issuu.com/mondiale/docs/darc_awards_2015_brochure |website=Mondiale Media |date=2015-09-24 |access-date=2025-02-16}}</ref>
- 2014 – Winner, Spatial Art, Media Architecture Biennale<ref>{{cite web |title=Awards |url=https://awards.mediaarchitecture.org/2014/ |website=Media Architecture Biennale |access-date=2025-02-16}}</ref>
- 2014 – Jury Selection, Japan Media Arts Festival<ref>{{cite web |title=Light Barrier |url=https://j-mediaarts.jp/en/award/light-barrier/ |website=Japan Media Arts Festival |access-date=2025-02-16}}</ref>
References
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