Kimchi and Chips

Kimchi and Chips Art and Technology duo based in Seoul

UnfoldX Festival 2025, Let Things Go - 관계들의 관계Artistic director : Kimchi and ChipsHost : Seoul Foundation for Arts and C...
16/03/2026

UnfoldX Festival 2025, Let Things Go - 관계들의 관계

Artistic director : Kimchi and Chips
Host : Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture
Production : Mind Design

지난해 서울융합예술페스티벌 언폴드엑스의 예술감독으로 서울문화재단, 그리고 많은 아티스트들과 함께 했던 소중한 경험에 다시 한번 깊은 감사를 드립니다. 페스티벌이 단순한 해프닝이 아닌 관계들의 관계를 잇는 역할을 할 수 있기를 바라며 모두 함께 땀 흘리며 만들었던 기억이 아직도 생생합니다.

Photography by and ⒸSeoul Foundation for Arts and Culture (SFAC)


1. Universal Tongue (전 지구의 언어) - [ ] (아누크 크라이토프)

2. In order to / be other, In order / to be other (다름이 되기 위해, 다름이 되는 질서) - [ ] (황인규)

3. The Club - [Oblik Soundwork] (차크람 응)

4. The Unknowable Reason (미상의 사유) -[ ] (양민하)

5. IT’S DANGEROUS TO GO ALONE! TAKE THIS (바깥은 혼자 돌아다니기에 위험하단다) - [ .isnowhere ] (비삼 이싸 알사바)

6. In Writing Hurrah for Freedom: Cinema and History (씌여진 영화, 씌여질 역사) - [ ] (이정우)

7. Flowing Reflections (흐르는 반영) - [ ] (김정환)

8. Dreaming Babies: illi (꿈꾸는 아기들: 일리) - [ ] (한윤정)

9. Rattling in the Bones (덜걱거리는 뼈) - [ ] (치우 위)

10. There is No Bird (새는 없다) - [ ] (우주+림희영)

11. (Whose) World (How) Wide Web ((누구의) 월드 (얼마나) 와이드 웹) - [ .yen.song ] (송예환)

12. Does It Still Matter - [ ] (노에미 뷔히)

13,14. GOAT - [ ] (고트)

15. πTon (파이톤) - [ .ch ] (코드 액트)

16,17. The Cost of Connection (관계의 대가) (with Andreas Tegnander)- [ , .tegnander ] (포트레이트 엑소 & 안드레아스 테그난더)

18. Études & Struere (연습곡 & 스트루에레) - [ & ] (윤연준, 고휘)

19,20. Invisible General (무형장군(無形將軍)) - [ .ko & ] (무코! 무코! & 논아이)

Reworld - Night version2025, Kimchi and Chips3600x2500 mmDiamond cut micro-prism arrayNetworked servo motor systemRoofto...
27/01/2026

Reworld - Night version

2025, Kimchi and Chips

3600x2500 mm

Diamond cut micro-prism array

Networked servo motor system

Rooftop searchlight

Light field calculations

«Reworld - Night version» was a brief experiment for the opening of our Visual Load exhibition at Frieze Hannam Night last September. It’s an adaptation of our Reworld prismatic canvas teamed with a powerful searchlight set up on the rooftop of the neighbouring Gallery Shilla building 100m down the street. Reworld then splits this beam into hundreds of shafts of light that interweave computationally to draw into the air.

Extracts from exhibition introduction of Reworld (daytime version) by Jane Lee 

Finally, on the sixth floor of the gallery, **Reworld** transforms its window into an optical apparatus that reorders our visual comprehension of the city. Thousands of diamond-cut micro-prisms, each operated by a precise electromechanical system, fragment and reorganise the sky, trees, buildings, shadows, and streets of the urban landscape into composite images. Whereas previous versions of the work used AI to orchestrate the prisms, here the artists have taken direct control.

The viewing experience is slow and demanding because the city initially appears fractured and unstable. After a minute or two, as the eyes relax and begin to adjust, the fragments coalesce into a single, mosaic–like image. The familiar becomes unfamiliar, remixed through optical intervention into a speculative future.

Although the viewer stands within the gallery, they encounter the view of the city not as remembered but as reimagined, in which memory and imagination are folded back into the act of seeing. Like the future it evokes, the work can only be experienced through time and with patience.

Unread Characters - Series 2 Type 12025, Kimchi and Chips650x650 mmPrecision ground anti-reflection crown glass lensesMa...
04/01/2026

Unread Characters - Series 2 Type 1
2025, Kimchi and Chips

650x650 mm
Precision ground anti-reflection crown glass lenses
Machined polycarbonate
LED lighting
Machine learning encoded light field projection

Introduction by curator Jane Lee
Unread Characters, a work that draws upon Yi Sang’s Crow’s Eye View. It is a poem written under an oppressive climate when language itself was fractured and estranged. Just as the original poems resisted fixed interpretation and reflected the imposed fragmentation of their time, the artists rewrote Crow’s Eye View by hand and trained it into a machine learning system. The handwritten text was reorganised by the internal logic of the AI, known as a latent space, and rematerialised through an array of lenses and lights into a two-dimensional lenticular structure.

Within the bounded viewing zone, a single character is always visible. But as the viewer moves within a range of one to three meters, shifting up, down, left, or right, the characters morph smoothly from one to the next. This transformation is not random but follows the internal structure of the machine’s internal logic. The work connects a historically censored linguistic expression with the contemporary mechanisms of algorithmic language, staging a dialogue between human resistance and computational patterning.

Here, reading is no longer confined to the eyes. It becomes an embodied act, where the entire body navigates a field of shifting language. The system acts as a collaborator in estrangement, reorganising words in ways that resist capture. The audience, too, is no longer a passive observer but a moving agent within the scattering, invited to explore where meaning is always partial and fluid. As in Yi Sang’s own Crow’s Eye View, the act of seeing is redefined as a precarious and fractured condition, never entirely stable.

Opening night of Kimchi and Chips’ exhibition at the newly constructed building in Itaewon for Frieze Hannam Night.📅 T...
01/09/2025

Opening night of Kimchi and Chips’ exhibition at the newly constructed building in Itaewon for Frieze Hannam Night.

📅 Tuesday, September 2nd — 5:00 PM to 11:00 PM

The exhibition focuses on new works from the , , and series created for this exhibition. The night will also feature a new experiment of Drawing in the Air on the 6th floor.

Catering by Link Seoul with cocktails by Ryu Distillery will be served on the 8th floor.

Reworld Day time on view 5pm - 6.30pm
Reworld Night time on view 7pm+

📍 Gallery Shilla Address: 11, Bogwang-ro 60-gil, Yongsan-gu, Seoul

김치앤칩스의 전시 오프닝에.

📅 9월 2일 화요일 — 오후 5시부터 11시까지

이태원에 새로운 둥지를 튼 ‘갤러리신라’와 함께 준비한 이번 전시에서는 김치앤칩스의 , , 의 새롭게 진화된 버전이 선보일 예정이며, 프리즈 한남 나잇 프로그램으로 준비됩니다.

9월 2일, 오후 5시 부터 밤 11시까지 ,갤러리신라’에서 진행되며 Link Seoul의 케이터링과 Ryu Distillery의 칵테일이 8층(리셉션)에서 제공되오니, 오셔서 함께 시간을 나눌 수 있기를 기대합니다.

📍 갤러리 신라 주소: 서울 용산구 보광로 60길 11

Photos by .jung of our ART KI♱CHEN event. Thanks to everybody who made it out on a wet Monday evening, to for housing, ...
16/07/2025

Photos by .jung of our ART KI♱CHEN event. Thanks to everybody who made it out on a wet Monday evening, to for housing, to for sound, for graphics and to the speakers who transformed our tricky constraints into a set of bite size tours through diverse desires and practises .seoul .0 .hair

[아래의 한국어] was recently on view at the Noor Riyadh Festival. We are honoured to present our first exhibition in the Arab...
30/12/2024

[아래의 한국어] was recently on view at the Noor Riyadh Festival. We are honoured to present our first exhibition in the Arabic world with a work that embodies our shared optimism for a future beyond fossil fuels.

Noor Riyadh is the world’s largest festival of light art and we congratulate the team and the curators for their effort and care in presenting this ambitious show where we were happy to present work alongside many of our favourite artists old and new.

Since its premiere in 2021, has been exhibited in Germany, Greece, Spain, South Korea, and Saudi Arabia.

Noor Riyadh 2024 ‘Light Years Apart’

Kimchi and Chips
Installation
Nov. 28 - Dec. 14, 2024


이 리야드 와디 하니파에서 열린 에서 전시를 마치고 돌아왔습니다.

화석연료를 넘어 새로운 미래의 비전을 담고 있는 을 아랍 문화권에서 처음 선보이게 되어 매우 기쁘고, 도전적인 여러 작품, 작가, 이를 이끈 Noor Riyadh의 큐레이터 및 모든 프로덕션 팀에게 다시 한번 감사함을 표합니다.

Noor Riyadh 2024 ‘Light Years Apart’

김치앤칩스
설치작품
2024년 11월 28일 ~ 12월 14일
빛 점등: 18:00
빛 소등: 그날의 태양 에너지가 소진될 때


\نور_الرياض # #김치앤칩스 #또다른달

읽지 않는 문자 / 가 울산시립미술관 ‘예술과 인공지능’ 전시에 참여합니다. 인공지능을 재료로, 개념으로, 비평의 대상으로 삼아 작업한 다양한 작품이 전시됩니다.- 울산시립미술관 지하 2층 1.2 전시실- 2024년...
12/11/2024

읽지 않는 문자 /

가 울산시립미술관 ‘예술과 인공지능’ 전시에 참여합니다.
인공지능을 재료로, 개념으로, 비평의 대상으로 삼아 작업한 다양한 작품이 전시됩니다.

- 울산시립미술관 지하 2층 1.2 전시실
- 2024년 11월 14일 - 2025년 2월 16일
- 참여작가 : 김치앤칩스, 히토 슈타이얼, 홀리헌던 & 맷 드라이허스트, 신승백김용훈, 조아형, 노진아, 김현석 등
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작품 설명 :
는 머신러닝으로 그린 패턴과 광학재료를 통해 시점이 이동할때 마다 다른 이미지를 발견하는 아나모픽 적 설치물이다. 

언어의 권력과 사라짐에 대한 사유로 시작된 프로젝트는, 소멸을 직전에 둔 소수 문자 중 유니코드로 인코딩되지 않은 문자를 다룬다. 이러한 문자는 컴퓨터 등의 디지털 기기에서는 쓸 수도, 읽을 수도 없다. 살아 있는 문자로 분류되지만 디지털 세계에서 기능하지 않는 문자의 존재는 이미 죽음과 다르지 않다. 

김치앤칩스는, 문자의 생존을 초래하는 세계의 기울어진 힘, 자본과 문화의 위계, 보편화, 세계화 등 거시적 서사에 주목하기보다는, 소수 언어의 시각적 재현과 의미를 지운 기표로서의 시각적 유희에 집중하며 문자의 고유한 존재감을 기록하고자 했다. 

유니코드화 되지 않은 5개의 토착 문자 체계를 선택하고, 20명의 참여자와 함께 펜과 종이 위에 쓰기를 반복하며 3만여 개의 손 글씨 문자를 적었다. 이후 손 글씨들은 스캔을 통해 머신러닝을 학습시킬 디지털 이미지로 전환되고 머신러닝은 손 글씨를 모방하며 각각의 문자 체계를 배운다. 의미나 음성을 배제하고 이미지로만 문자를 학습한 머신러닝은 스스로의 기억에 의존하며 문자를 재구성해 한 장의 패턴을 만든다. 정교한 계산과 프로그래밍으로 만들어진 이 패턴은 수백 개의 정렬된 유리 렌즈 뒷면에 프린트되고, 관객은 실제 공간 안에서 시점을 이동할 때마다 렌즈를 통해 문자를 발견하게 된다.  

본 전시에서는, 식민지어와 제국주의어가 혼재하는 크리올어의 유일한 문자 시스템인 [아파카]와 동일한 구절의 반복을 통해 불안을 고조시키는 이상의 [오감도 시제1호]를 소개한다. 라틴 문자의 혼합과 변형을 통해 토착 문자로 정착한 [아파카]와 시의 문장에서 떨어져 나와 새롭게 재배치된 낱개의 한글이 렌즈를 통해 착시처럼 드러날 때 관객은 읽을 수 있을 거 같지만 읽기 힘든 익숙하고 생경한 불안을 경험하게 된다.  

#울산시립미술관
#예술과인공지능

【 deTour 2024｜特邀合作：南韓裝置藝術工作室 Kimchi and Chips 呈獻《REWORLD Type 2》】手機、電腦、電視，各種屏幕時刻設法「吸引你眼球」，卻未必真正滿足到你的靈魂。透過《REWORLD Type 2...
07/11/2024

【 deTour 2024｜特邀合作：南韓裝置藝術工作室 Kimchi and Chips 呈獻《REWORLD Type 2》】

手機、電腦、電視，各種屏幕時刻設法「吸引你眼球」，卻未必真正滿足到你的靈魂。
透過《REWORLD Type 2》這幅「城市屏幕」，單憑你的眼前的景象，就能重構出另一個既真實又抽象的視覺世界！

由南韓裝置藝術工作室 Kimchi and Chips 創作的《REWORLD Type 2》是一個創新的「城市屏幕」。它沒有使用傳統的LED來呈現影像，而是將周遭景觀透過微稜鏡重組成流動的影像，融入於城市建築之中，提供信息、傳達思想、增添城市美學。

正如美國哲學家哈拉維（Donna J. Haraway）曾經說過：「重要的是，我們的世界是由什麼樣的世界構成的。」《REWORLD Type 2》是一個僅利用作品周圍環境已有元素生成圖像的屏幕，它通過重新想像和循環利用現實來創造新的信息和思想。此屏幕使用了逾千個由精密電機驅動的微稜鏡，從鏡片的轉動過程折射部分周圍環境構成新影像，展現一個引人入勝的「重組世界」。

《REWORLD Type 2》
📍 Courtyard & Marketplace 地面廣場

deTour 2024 – design festival 設計節
Having → Being: Designing Inner Worlds
擁有 → 存有：內在的設計
🗓️ 日期 Date｜2024.11.29 - 12.15
🕐 時間 Time｜11:00 - 20:00
📍 地點 Venue｜PMQ元創方
ℹ️ 詳情 Detail ｜http://detour.hk/

從擁有到存有，一起到 deTour 2024 探尋設計的內涵吧！

【deTour 2024｜International Collaboration: Kimchi and Chips 】

Screens such as mobile phones, computers, and TVs are ubiquitous but they are not always truly satisfying. as a proposition for a new type of urban screen that takes the real world of the existing city in front of you and reconstructs it to render images that are both actual and abstract.

Created by the internationally acclaimed artist team Kimchi and Chips, is an innovative urban screen that constructs images not with traditional LEDs, but by remixing fragments from the surrounding landscape. Urban screens have become a principal material of the built environment, and are used to communicate ideas, convey ambitions, provide instructions, and contribute to the creation of a city’s aesthetic and mythology.

To quote Donna J. Haraway, “It matters what stories make worlds, what worlds make stories.” REWORLD is a screen that generates images solely from the city’s existing elements, reimagining and recycling reality into new messages and ideas. This screen operates using more than one thousand micro-prisms actuated by precision motors, which selectively refract the surroundings to form new images.

Let’s explore the essence of design together at deTour 2024 from the Outside In!

·主辦單位 Organiser ｜ PMQ元創方
·主要贊助單位 Lead Sponsor ｜香港特別行政區「文創產業發展處」Cultural and Creative Industries Development Agency (CCIDA) of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region
·總策展人 Curator-at-large ｜黃馨 Shin Wong
·策展人Curator ｜陳濬人 Adonian Chan

圖片來源 Photo Credits：National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA), Korea; Kimchi and Chips

#擁有 #存有 #內在的設計 #設計節 #元創方 #香港好去處

07/11/2024

【deTour 2024｜特邀合作：南韓裝置藝術工作室 Kimchi and Chips 呈獻《REWORLD Type 2》】

「REWORLD 從周圍環境中捕捉一系列視覺元素，如天氣、光的顏色、人的動作等，然後將它們重新組合成新的影像。」Kimchi and Chips 說。

人的視覺和觀點可以分開嗎？來自當下影像，透過《REWORLD Type 2》作品逾千個特製微稜鏡重構世界，讓雙眼引領你重新思考生活與世界，感受一個引人入勝的「重組世界」。

今年「特邀合作」界別的創作單位 Kimchi and Chips ，是由韓國藝術家 Mimi Son 和英國藝術家 Elliot Woods 於 2009 年在首爾共同創立的裝置藝術工作室，在藝術和科技融合領域享譽國際。其大型裝置藝術作品探索了光、空間與感知的交集，創造沉浸式體驗，打破現實與虛幻的邊界。他們設計的一個關鍵元素是善用先進技術，包括 3D 投影、人工智能和光學，當中「 Light Barrier 」系列利用光場革新了體積影像創建便是一個典型例子。其作品獲譽無數，曾在世界各大知名場館展出，例如韓國國立現代美術館、德國 ZKM 藝術與媒體中心及奧地利林茲電子藝術中心，鞏固了他們在當代藝術和技術領域的影響力。

《REWORLD Type 2》
📍 Courtyard & Marketplace 地面廣場

deTour 2024 – design festival 設計節
Having → Being: Designing Inner Worlds
擁有 → 存有：內在的設計
🗓️ 日期 Date｜2024.11.29 - 12.15
🕐 時間 Time｜11:00 - 20:00
📍 地點 Venue｜PMQ元創方
ℹ️ 詳情 Detail ｜http://detour.hk/

從擁有到存有，一起到 deTour 2024 探尋設計的內涵吧！

【 deTour 2024｜International Collaboration: Kimchi and Chips presents 】

“REWORLD catches a palette of visual elements from the surrounding environment; from the weather, the colour of the light, the audience movements, and then remixes them to form new images." - Kimchi and Chips

Can human vision and perspectives be separated? Images from the surrounding cityscape reconstruct the world through more than one thousand micro-prisms in “REWORLD Type 2”, allowing your eyes to lead you to reopen your senses and experience a world formed by new images.

The International Collaboration of deTour 2024 is Kimchi and Chips , a team of Seoul-based artists Mimi Son and Elliot Woods. Kimchi and Chips is acclaimed for art and technology. Founded in 2009, their large-scale installations explore the intersections of light, space, and perception, creating immersive experiences that blur reality and illusion. A key aspect of their work is the use of advanced technologies, including 3D projection, artificial intelligence, and optics, exemplified by their “Light Barrier” series, which innovated volumetric image creation using light fields. Rooted in a belief that blends art, science and philosophy, they meticulously design every aspect of their projects, from coding to structural mechanics. Their works have been exhibited at prominent venues worldwide, including National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea, ZKM Center for Art and Media and Ars Electronica, earning numerous accolades and solidifying their influence in the contemporary art and technology landscape.

Let’s explore the essence of design together at deTour 2024 from the Outside In!

·主辦單位 Organiser ｜ PMQ元創方
·主要贊助單位 Lead Sponsor ｜香港特別行政區「文創產業發展處」Cultural and Creative Industries Development Agency (CCIDA) of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region
·總策展人 Curator-at-large ｜黃馨 Shin Wong
·策展人Curator ｜陳濬人 Adonian Chan

圖片來源 Photo Credits：National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA), Korea, Kimchi and Chips

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03/10/2024

Join our critic as he cruises through dozens of gallery and museum exhibitions during Frieze Week in Seoul, South Korea.

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