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This paper explores the emerging popularity of video art in Korea. The writer discusses the reasons for the interest in this art form, and some of the major artists practicing this art form. Several recent exhibitions are described as are some of the works that were part of the exhibits. The author concludes that Korean artists are now taking the world stage to showcase their work, even if some of their creations are only significant to Korean audiences.

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"Park Hyun Ki was born in 1942 in Seoul, his focus in art is in the link between spirituality and technology. He explains that his particular interest is in finding the balance between industrialization and culture. The deeper undertones of his art is that he finds in Korean culture the economic growth and the social growth from Western countries have changed it away from traditional values. He sees the video art as a method of using video monitor as an art object, however he has evolved to using a more sophisticated "merging of video and nature". "

Sample of Sources Used:

• The image significant: identity in contemporary Korean video art Afterimage, July-August, 1999 by Joan Kee
• Artist's quotation from the unsigned article, "Exhibit Illuminates Pioneer of Korean Video Art: Park Hyun-Ki Explores Relationship Between Technology and Traditional Aesthetics," Korea Herald, September 8, 1998.
• Roland Barthes, "The Photographic Message," in Image-Music-Text (New York: Hill and Wang, 1977), p. 1.

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