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| {{Infobox artist collective | |
| | name = Kimchi and Chips | |
| | image = Kimchi_and_Chips_Founders.jpg | |
| | caption = Mimi Son and Elliot Woods, founders of Kimchi and Chips | |
| | formation = 2009 | |
| | founders = Mimi Son, Elliot Woods | |
| | location = Seoul, South Korea | |
| | field = Media art, installation art, light art | |
| | website = {{URL|https://www.kimchiandchips.com/}} | |
| }} | |
| '''Kimchi and Chips''' is an art and technology studio based in Seoul, South Korea, founded in 2009 by South Korean artist '''Mimi Son''' and British artist '''Elliot Woods'''. The studio is known for large-scale light installations that create volumetric images and optical phenomena, including the ''Light Barrier'' series, ''Halo'', and ''Another Moon''. Their work has been exhibited internationally at venues such as Ars Electronica, Somerset House, the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Seoul, ZKM Center for Art and Media, and the Onassis Foundation.<ref name="Onassis">{{cite web |title=Kimchi and Chips – Artist Profile |url=https://www.onassis.org/people/kimchi-and-chips |website=Onassis Foundation |access-date=2025-04-12}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Halo |url=https://www.somersethouse.org.uk/whats-on/halo |website=Somerset House |access-date=2025-11-27}}</ref> | |
| They have received major recognitions including an Award of Distinction at the ''Prix Ars Electronica'', prizes at the Japan Media Arts Festival and Media Architecture Biennale, and the 2022 ''crQlr'' Award.<ref name="AE-AMoon">{{cite web |title=Another Moon – Prix Ars Electronica 2022 |url=https://ars.electronica.art/prix/en/interactiveart/anothermoon/ |website=Ars Electronica |access-date=2025-11-27}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=crQlr Awards 2022 – Another Moon |url=https://crqlr.com/another-moon/ |website=crQlr |access-date=2025-11-27}}</ref> | |
| [[File:Kimchi_and_Chips_Another_Moon.jpg|thumb|right|''Another Moon'' presented at Llum BCN Festival in Barcelona, Spain]] | |
| == Founders == | |
| '''Mimi Son''' is a South Korean artist whose practice incorporates natural phenomena, light, and altered perspectives to explore the boundary between physical and virtual experience. Themes in her work include dualities such as life and death, day and night, and the individual versus the collective. She has also contributed to education and curatorial projects through lectures, workshops, and exhibitions.<ref name="Onassis" /> | |
| '''Elliot Woods''' is a British artist and technologist. He received a master's degree from the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Manchester. Woods works with computer vision, machine learning, robotics, and light-based technologies, with a focus on human perception in natural and artificial environments. He is also active in the open-source creative coding community.<ref name="Onassis" /> | |
| == Practice == | |
| Kimchi and Chips integrates conceptual and technical approaches in media art, employing software programming, electromechanical systems, optical engineering, structural design, and artificial intelligence. Many works are the result of long-term research processes, often focused on experiments in “drawing with light” and creating images in air, fog, or architectural space.<ref name="FvF">{{cite web |last=root |date=2019-08-02 |title=Seoul-based light artists Kimchi and Chips conjure form at the edge of materiality |url=https://www.friendsoffriends.com/art/seoul-based-light-artists-kimchi-and-chips-conjure-form-at-the-edge-of-materiality/ |website=Friends of Friends |access-date=2025-04-12}}</ref><ref name="AE-AMoon" /> | |
| The studio has contributed over 200 open-source software libraries and tools, including significant contributions to ''openFrameworks'' and ''VVVV''.<ref>{{cite web |title=Elliot Woods – GitHub repositories |url=https://github.com/elliotwoods?tab=repositories |website=GitHub |access-date=2025-11-27}}</ref> | |
| == Recognition == | |
| Kimchi and Chips is widely associated with innovations in volumetric imagery and light-field projection. Its ''Light Barrier'' series (2014–) used scanning mirrors and fog as a projection medium to generate three-dimensional images in space.<ref>{{cite web |title=Light Barrier – Japan Media Arts Festival |url=https://j-mediaarts.jp/en/award/light-barrier/ |website=Japan Media Arts Festival |access-date=2025-02-16}}</ref> | |
| ''Light Barrier 3rd Edition'' received the 2017 Award of Distinction at the ''Prix Ars Electronica'', marking the first time that Korean artists received the Award of Distinction at Ars Electronica in the field of media art.<ref>{{cite web |title=Prix Ars Electronica 2017 – Light Barrier 3rd Edition |url=https://ars.electronica.art/prix/en/lightbarrier/ |website=Ars Electronica |access-date=2025-11-27}}</ref><ref name="AE-AMoon" /> | |
| The studio's works have been shown at major museums and festivals including MMCA Seoul, ZKM Karlsruhe, Ars Electronica Linz, Somerset House London, ACC Gwangju, and the Onassis Foundation, among others.<ref>{{cite web |title=Kimchi and Chips – Profile |url=https://cms.kookmin.ac.kr/uni/notice/1720879?d_type=PAGE&d_code=205 |website=Kookmin University |access-date=2025-11-27}}</ref> | |
| == Notable works == | |
| [[File:Kimchi_and_Chips_Halo.jpg|thumb|left|''Halo'' (2018) at Somerset House, London]] | |
| * '''Reworld Pavilion''' – Presented at the 4th Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism (2023). This pavilion combined AI-generated mosaics and environmental data to explore speculative models of future urbanism.<ref>{{cite web |title=Reworld Pavilion – Seoul Biennale 2023 |url=https://seoulbiennale.org/en/exhibition/reworld-pavilion |website=Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism |access-date=2025-11-27}}</ref> | |
| * '''Collective Behaviour''' – A collaboration with choreographer Simone Wierød, integrating reflective materials and optical effects to examine collective and individual identities within performance.<ref>{{cite web |title=Collective Behaviour |url=https://www.sejongpac.or.kr/portal/performance/view/ |website=Sejong Center |access-date=2025-11-27}}</ref> | |
| * '''Another Moon''' (2021–) – A large-scale outdoor installation using lasers to project a virtual moon created from accumulated sunlight. First presented at the NEW NOW Festival at Zeche Zollverein in Essen, Germany, and subsequently exhibited at Llum BCN in Barcelona.<ref name="AE-AMoon" /> | |
| * '''Halo''' (2018) – Commissioned for Somerset House in London, this installation used 99 robotic heliostat mirrors to track the sun and project concentrated beams of light into a fine mist, forming luminous circular images.<ref>{{cite web |title=HALO by Kimchi and Chips |url=https://londonkoreanlinks.net/2018/06/08/kimchi-and-chips-return-to-london-with-halo/ |website=London Korean Links |access-date=2025-11-27}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Halo – Somerset House |url=https://www.somersethouse.org.uk/whats-on/halo |website=Somerset House |access-date=2025-11-27}}</ref> | |
| * '''Lunar Surface''' – Installed inside a decommissioned incinerator in Bucheon, South Korea, this work used projection, 3D tracking, and a suspended silk flag to create the appearance of a floating moon.<ref>{{cite web |title=Artist Profile – Lunar Surface |url=https://cms.kookmin.ac.kr/uni/notice/1720879?d_type=PAGE&d_code=205 |website=Kookmin University |access-date=2025-11-27}}</ref> | |
| * '''Link''' (2010) – The studio’s early work exhibited at Design Korea, featuring an interactive cardboard cityscape in which visitors recorded personal narratives, exploring communication technologies embedded in everyday objects.<ref>{{cite web |title=LINK |url=https://kimchiandchips.com/project/link/ |website=Kimchi and Chips |access-date=2025-11-27}}</ref> | |
| == Awards == | |
| * 2022 – Winner, '''crQlr Awards''' (''Another Moon'')<ref>{{cite web |title=crQlr Awards 2022 – Another Moon |url=https://crqlr.com/another-moon/ |website=crQlr |access-date=2025-11-27}}</ref> | |
| * 2022 – Honorary Mention, Interactive Art+, ''Prix Ars Electronica'' (''Another Moon'')<ref name="AE-AMoon" /> | |
| * 2019 – Jury Selection, ''Japan Media Arts Festival'' (with Evala)<ref>{{cite web |title=Acoustic Vessel Odyssey |url=https://j-mediaarts.jp/en/award/acoustic-vessel-odyssey/ |website=Japan Media Arts Festival |access-date=2025-02-16}}</ref> | |
| * 2018 – Nominee, Spatial Media Art, ''Media Architecture Biennale''<ref>{{cite web |title=World's best media architecture awarded |url=https://www.mediaarchitecture.org/worlds-best-media-architecture-awarded/ |website=Media Architecture Biennale |access-date=2025-02-16}}</ref> | |
| * 2017 – Award of Distinction, ''Prix Ars Electronica'' (''Light Barrier 3rd Edition'')<ref>{{cite web |title=Prix Ars Electronica 2017 |url=https://ars.electronica.art/prix/en/lightbarrier/ |website=Ars Electronica |access-date=2025-11-27}}</ref> | |
| * 2015 – Honorary Mention, ''Prix Ars Electronica''<ref>{{cite web |title=Prix Ars Electronica 2015 |url=https://archive.aec.at/prix/2015/ |website=Ars Electronica Archive |access-date=2025-02-16}}</ref> | |
| * 2015 – Winner, Light Art Category, ''Darc Awards''<ref>{{cite web |title=Darc Awards 2015 Brochure |url=https://issuu.com/mondiale/docs/darc_awards_2015_brochure |website=Mondiale Media |date=2015-09-24 |access-date=2025-02-16}}</ref> | |
| * 2014 – Winner, Spatial Art, ''Media Architecture Biennale''<ref>{{cite web |title=Media Architecture Biennale Awards 2014 |url=https://awards.mediaarchitecture.org/2014/ |website=Media Architecture Biennale |access-date=2025-02-16}}</ref> | |
| * 2014 – Jury Selection, ''Japan Media Arts Festival''<ref>{{cite web |title=Light Barrier |url=https://j-mediaarts.jp/en/award/light-barrier/ |website=Japan Media Arts Festival |access-date=2025-02-16}}</ref> | |
| == Selected lectures == | |
| * '''Images that change the way we see''' – Lecture presented at the 2022 KIKK Festival, discussing the influence of image-based technologies on collective imagination.<ref>{{cite web |title=KIKK Festival 2022 – Kimchi and Chips |url=https://www.kikk.be/2022/kimchi-and-chips/ |website=KIKK Festival |access-date=2025-11-27}}</ref> | |
| == References == | |
| {{reflist}} | |
| == External links == | |
| * [https://www.kimchiandchips.com/ Official website] |
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