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ARISONG(Hye Ro Lee, Seung Min Chung, and Ji Yun Han) is a media art group that uses
digital media technologies to create works that reflect visitors’ interactions with them. It uses
familiar genres and subjects, such as nature, food, and animals, as mediums for exploring things
in our lives that we’ve lost interest in and to create “ideal spaces” for broadening the scope of our
sensory experiences.

Giant Pizza was inspired by the children’s book Pete’s a Pizza by William Steig. It is not
a normal-sized pizza: children can place everyday objects that look like toppings, including
cushions, pink towels that look like strips of bacon, rugs, “cheese” mops, and even red plastic
basin “tomatoes,” on a massive fabric pizza that takes up most of the floor. Visitors can also enjoy
becoming a topping themselves by sitting on the dough while wearing corn gloves or lying down
on the shrimp-shaped cushions. Visitors can see the outcomes of their actions through real-time
projections on the wall captured by a ceiling-mounted camera (photos of the wall projections are
printed out and distributed on-site).

Listening To Nature is an artwork that is being presented for the first time through the
Wooyang Museum of Contemporary Art. It is a “walking trail” made with eco-friendly materials
that allows visitors to concentrate on nature’s many rhythms and hear the sounds made by
the materials in time with one’s footsteps. Through Listening To Nature, you can enjoy the
transformation of your breathing, footsteps, and other physical movements from visual to
auditory experiences.

The Color of Time is about seasonal changes over time. While walking alongside a wall of
hanging fabric strips, which represent leaves of grass flying upward and act as a “screen” that
displays how nature changes over each of Korea’s four seasons (e.g. natural phenomena, colors),
visitors have a multi-sensory experience of nature’s cycles. Through this artwork, visitors gain a
sense of the overwhelming force of time, during which life forms are born and die.

In Green Wave Green Weave, visitors can experience the satisfaction of gardening by creating
a world of greenery using materials of diverse colors and textures. Visitors become gardeners,
weaving the desired “plants” (materials) into the “furrows” (mesh pillars) with a crochet hook.
This process, although it does require a certain level of hand-eye coordination, enables visitors
to experience the fun of gardening and the peace of mind that comes from being in nature. The
waves of green that accumulate during the exhibition serve as a medium that links not only
visitors with ARISONG but with one another as well.