Game on: Media_City Seoul 2004, the capital's third electronic-arts biennial, examined the social and psychological implications of today's video saturation and digital gaming.(REPORT FROM KOREA II)

From: Art in America | Date: May 1, 2005| Author: | Copyright information

If one biennial is good, four must be four times better--right? Such seems to be the thinking in Korea lately, where last fall major international art conclaves took place in Gwangju and Busan [see p. 72] and the World Ceramics Biennale is currently in its third installment [through June 19] in Icheon, Yeoju and Gwangju. Sandwiched between these massive events, Media_City Seoul 2004, the capital city's third biennial of video and electronic-based art, made a bid for critical notice with a calculatedly up-to-date theme: "Digital Homo Ludens, Game/Play."

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