PostOntology; MindBody in Metaverse(2022)
In winter 2021, I met with four multidisciplinary artists and researchers: Seongbaek Kim, Amos Peled, Handi Kim, and Jacco Borggreve to share my curiosities and confirmed that these are contemporary ideas that are interesting enough to be discussed in common.
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Now I’m thinking ontologically: There is no longer a solid fence betweenphysical reality and the digital virtual world. The value of a physical space that has been maintained for a long time, such as an agora, changesdramatically, and we are also finding ourselves in the digital space and getting used to others. Various methods by the great philosophers sinceancient Greece; about our mind-body problem5, which has been defined as dualism6, monism7 so on, be discussed in terms of a new dimension ofdifferent physicality - Discussing this is safer and more important than consuming and developing technology.
And I’m asking philosophically(Frowning eyebrows): in the metaverse -how are our bodies and minds defined? How do we perceive ourselves? How can we perceive other people? How will we relate and form a society? Can we be moral? Can we be beautiful?
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In winter 2021, I met with four multidisciplinary artists and researchers: Seongbaek Kim, Amos Peled, Handi Kim, and Jacco Borggreve to share my curiosities and confirmed that these are contemporary ideas that are interesting enough to be discussed in common.
After that, they sent articles containing their specific thoughts which are about morality in the metaverse, self-image in virtual reality, and digital hypnosis, and conducted offline and online interviews based on the articles. Here, Handi Kim participated in designing a digital publication, which has seen her quest for the subject in her own visual language.
Supported by Arts Council Korea - ART&TECH