ACC CREATORS Residency is an interdisciplinary platform for experimental projects by future-oriented practitioners combining artistic creativity and technology. Since 2015, ACC has been supporting creators from around the world who use technology in innovative ways to expand the boundaries of creative expression.
This year’s residency program, themed “AI / Human / Multiverse,” explores the present and the approaching future from various perspectives through the projects of eight teams of creators, selected through an international open call in June. These projects delve into the complex network of relationships between humans and non-humans, as well as art and technology.
Since August, participants have been refining their project concepts and research methods through the residency program, which includes orientation, tours, thematic and technical workshops, expert matching, research, and production, all based on ACC’s creative production infrastructure, ACT Studio.
The mid-stage results of these projects will be introduced to the public and relevant experts at the ‘Creators Talk,’ held in conjunction with ACC’s interdisciplinary arts festival based on art and technology, ‘ACT (Arts & Creative Technology) Festival 2024’ on September 28.
The final outcomes will be presented in an Open Studio and Showcase from November 22 to 24 at the Complex Studio. This event will feature project showcases, performances, workshops, and talks with major international art and technology institutions.
ACC CREATORS Residency (Korean) / ACC CREATORS Residency (English)
Cyan D’Anjou
Cyan D’Anjou is a multimedia sculpture and performance artist whose work takes on a speculative quality as she envisions the potential social impacts of digital and computation convergence with physical human experience–which she expresses in the form of hybrid installations situated within conceptual narratives.
HKASON
Centered on the materiality and performativity of the skin that covers the human body and the clothes worn on top of it, HKASON has been embodying in the form of theater the multilayered relationship that extends to human body, objects, and space. The physical act of putting on and taking off, which arises from the relationship between the body and objects that he has been preoccupied with, transfers to the relationship between the body and space, which again gradually expands.
Line of Piers
Line of Piers is an artist collective founded in 2023 by media artist SANGHEE and narrative designer Seonghun. Line of Piers was formed to expand their research on physical sensation of space and the spatialization of the body. They also seek to actively reference subcultures that accelerate the imagination of interactivity.
RAY LC
RAY LC’s practice creates interaction environments for building bonds between humans and machines. He uses speculative narrative approaches to probe the ways humans adapt to technology. RAY takes perspectives from his research in neuroscience and HCI in his artistic practice, with works at BankArt, Elektra Montreal, Ars Electronica and more.
Ryuta Aoki
Ryuta Aoki is an artistic director and social sculptor based in Tokyo. With the theme of exploring “societies as they could be,” he orchestrates research and development, art projects, conferences, and exhibitions, and creates works of art as artist collectives, in the interdisciplinary field between art, science, and technology.
Skyscores (Edu Castillo-Vinuesa & Luiza Crosman)
Skyscores is a research framework created by Luiza Crosman and Eduardo Castillo-Vinuesa in 2024 to critically examine the geopolitical and ecological implications of the commodification of the sky under our current climate change regime. The project employs various media and interdisciplinary methodologies to explore how financial markets, simulation technologies, and geoengineering practices are reshaping our understanding and interaction with the atmosphere.
Synphisica
Synphysica, founded in 2018 by ChiaoChi Chou and Youyang Hu, with Chihhsuan Fang as a team observer to jointly develop creative projects. Synphysica symbolizes an entity born over millennia, without fixed form, existing as elusive data presence. The team members leverage their diverse backgrounds to explore the relationship between humans and nature through the interactions among humans and non-humans driven by bio-signal.
