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LACMA awards Art+Tech Grant to two Koreans

April 10, 2014

Media artist Choi Tae-yoon and graphic designer Kang E-roon

This Choi Taeyoon project was started by trying to understand tourists’ desire to photograph relentlessly.

This Choi Taeyoon project was started by trying to understand tourists’ desire to photograph relentlessly.

Two Koreans, media artist Choi Tae-yoon and graphic designer Kang E-roon, have received the Art + Technology Lab Artist Grant Award from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

Their media piece, ‘In Search of Personalized Time,’ allows users to set their own time using devices and different methods.

It is one of five chosen from a pool of more than 450 and, according to the LACMA blog, is a project that is “experimental and addresses issues at the intersection of culture and technology.”

Choi, who is a graduate of KAIST and The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, he is one of the co-founders of the School for Poetic Computation, an institution that works with visiting artists and teachers on open source and open hardware.

Kang, on the the other hand, is a TED fellow and the owner of the design studio Math Practice in New York. A graduate of the School of Visual Arts and Yale University, he was recently a research fellow at MIT’s SENSEable City Laboratory.

The piece will be unveiled over the year with demonstrations, discussions and presentations at LACMA.