The World of Quantum
Let us shrink down to the nanometer scale. If you shrink even more and go into an atom it becomes the quantum world. Things that are impossible in our daily life happen in that space. You can be in two places at once or pass through walls. You can be both alive and dead. Use your imagination to express the quantum world.
Program Details
Subject: The world of Quantum
Art Categories
Any type (Oil painting, textile design, pictures, video, etc.)
Qualification
Open to the general public and students (Team or individual)
Award and Prize
| QNS Director’s Prize | 3,000,000 KRW | One Prize |
| Second Prize | 2,000,000 KRW | Two Prizes |
| Third Prize | 1,000,000 KRW | Two Prizes |
Winners
QNS Director’s Prize
Jo Min Jeong
One and Two Incense, Two-channel Video
Description
This work is an animation that combines filmed smoke with charcoal drawing. Drawings were obtained by repeatedly drawing and erasing images on a single piece of paper and have been embodied by a slowly burning incense, which was created by using a total of 176 scans. Each of the two incenses in this work are made up of the same 176 drawing images. However, in the editing process with digital media, the order and time/space of the drawings are arranged differently and the layer of time is also subtly different between the two incenses. (What is interesting in the video editing process is that the location and space occupancy of each source represents time.) Therefore, the two incenses can be the same and different from each other simultaneously. Everything consists of atoms. So do our bodies. However, according to quantum mechanics, which describes atoms’ structure, the position and the quantity of motion (speed) of an electron cannot be known simultaneously. It is said that even the existence of an electron is not known until a measurement is made. This interesting fact arouses our imagination regarding the human existence. Is there really only one self that is immutable? Is not there any possibility of so many versions of me existing that are both the same as or different from the me here now? What is it about having contradictory states at the same time? Can we say that these states are real?
The incense in the work represents my existence that grows into something, proceeding towards a set end without knowing when and how it ignited. It is also a portrait of my imagination of the infinite number of cases in the universe.
Second Prize
YOON Min Gee
Untitled 2, Variable size, Stones
Second Prize
YOUN Julie Insun
Status Message from Nocturnal Vision – Superposing Multiverse
#1: 90×450 cm, #2-3: 90×270 cm #4-5: 90×275 cm #6-7: 90×216 cm, Digital print on fabric, stainless steel
Third Prize
Maltakjin (LEE Hotak, LEE Ryeojin, CHO Yoonyoung)
Gaagaadonut, 100×100×100 cm, Mixed media
Third Prize
KIM Dasul
Lightness of Perception, 130×193 cm, Mixed Media (gesso and scaulpey on panel)
Donated to QNS
LIM Myounghee
Twist, 69×130 cm, Digital Print on Paper (Photo Rag)
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