Art shifts in accordance to time. In today’s contemporary world, the once distinct domains of art and technology come together in the bodies of work produced by young artists. Here, we speak to New York based Korean American artist Lisa Park, a burgeoning name in the scene.
THROUGHOUT THE COURSE of history, the world’s constantly shifting cultural discourse has birthed an array of significant art movements: Impressionism in the 1860s sought to immortalise moments of time on a canvas; controversial Dada art movement reared its head as a radical critique of social structures in the 1910s; and later in the 1920s, surrealism reigned supreme in purveying the need for individualistic thought. The perimeters of this list is far extending, perhaps even reaching into the hundreds.
The question of the contemporary art movement then arises — what governs the art moment of now? The answer is far more convoluted than the clear demarkers of the past. The inexhaustible repertoire of mediums, techniques and platforms available to an artist inherently leads to the production of a widely diverse range of works. While it may not be plausible to classify the contemporary moment within one overarching umbrella, its key influences can be distilled.
Ranking high amongst them is the use of technology. Living in the thick of a digital era, contemporary art and technology have become unlikely bedfellows. Today, the latter is a window into previously unexplored territories where the possibilities for creation are infinite. The intermingling between the two disparate disciplines has entirely revolutionised the art-making process from the medium to its eventual outcome — art has moved far beyond being merely a passive two-dimensional canvas hung on a wall for decorum.
In the coming together of the tangible and the non-material, or the real and the virtual, an entirely new domain for art has been conceived. It is a world in which its participants can entirely immerse into an experience and at times, even interact with. Amongst the new generation of artists toggling within this realm is New York-based Korean-American artist Lisa Park.
This story is from the November 2018 edition of T Singapore: The New York Times Style Magazine.
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