Sun Jung KIM

Curator, Sonje Museum of Contemporary Art

Korean, born in 1965
Lives and works in Seoul, Korea

	M.F.A., Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, 1991
	B.F.A., Ehwa Women's University, Seoul, 1988

Selected Professional Positions:

	Curator, Sonje Museum of Contemporary Art, Kyongju, Korea, 1993 - present
	Lecturer, Han Sung University, Seoul, 1993 - 95
	Lecturer, Choong-Ang University, Seoul, 1993 - 95
	Lecturer, Sang Myung Women's University, Seoul, 1993 - 95
	Guest Curator, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, 1993

Selected Exhibitions:

	Photography Today, Sonje Museum of Contemporary Art, Kyongju, Korea, 1995
	The Human, the Environment, and the Future, Sonje Museum of Contemporary Art, Kyongju, Korea, 1994
	Photography and Image, Sonje Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea, 1993

Facing the beginning of the 21st century, the computer is now regarded as a new area of art. The Internet, which connects all countries in the world, is a continuously growing project. It is not enough to call existing works of art which have been converted to digital images "Web Art." This kind of procedure has the advantage of fast information transmission. Artists are challenging the freedom and activity of cyberspace.
In a globalized and decentralized world, art cannot be only for a select group of people (like collectors, scholars, art historians, art specialists, visitors to museums, and so on) but must also be available for the masses. The artists who use e-mail now are making their own home pages on the Internet.
Nancy Spero's works, such as "Woman, War, Victimage, Resistance," are experienced differently in "real" space than they are as photographs in virtual space. For example, one photograph in this work is of a naked woman who is lowering her head and is tied with rope, with this photograph is an explanation that this photograph was found amongst the items of the Gestapo.
Nowadays, technology and art cannot be separated, they are interdependent upon each other. The introduction of the camera and motion pictures in the 19th century and then, one hundred years later, the invention of the television and video have changed the 20th century. The emergence of the television as a form of mass media has led to a great many changes in our society and culture. It has also defined the strategies of post modernism.
The era of the camera and motion pictures is gradually integrated into electronic images through CD-ROMs, computers and the Internet. Furthermore, these new media also influence the way we receive information, the way we work and communicate with one another and the way we create works of art.
Working on a computer, we can send works of art and ideas immediately to enormous numbers of people which previously could not have even been imagined. Instantaneousness is the main key for two or three dimensional graphics and virtual space. It is also an important factor for communication.
Anticipating the 21st century, we have to pay attention to this. Artists will prefer their own home pages to canvas, pencil, oils, sculptural materials, etc. Present day galleries will run cyberspace galleries. The computer will be applied in the work place beyond the traditional concept of cooperation.