Light, the Dance of Time
No boundary between creation and extinction
   
Light, the Dance of Time contains the story of creation and extinction between time and space.
It is an immersive video crossing hyper-realistic scenes with the inspiration from Bangudae Petroglyphs,
which have traces of prehistoric age, adding imagination.
   
Images engraved in the petroglyphs, such as people, wales, deer, tigers, turtles, etc., are reconstructed as modern figurative language.
These connect the past and the present and are the objects giving artistic experiences.
Moreover, the video shows sea, mountains, and rivers in Ulsan and the scenery of industrialized places
by turns as a motif of expressing the circulation of time and space.
Through this, it metaphorically visualizes the flow of creation and extinction that covers the artwork.
Furthermore, the changes of the light, the kinetic process of the screen, and the restraint of colors amplify and give aesthetic tensions.
The intention of this work is to encourage empathy via experience in ‘XR lab’, the exhibition hall for media art,
to enhance the immersive level of the viewers. Particularly, to embody the relationship between creation and extinction,
which circulates consistently beyond time and space,
the artist installed a water tank in the exhibition hall and made the effects where the video image reflected in the water is projected
and reflected in lights.
   
Light, the Dance of Time shows various expressions by the artist,
Lyu Jae Ha, who has focused on media work by is interested in Media art since the late 1990s,
and has researched and experimented for several years.
He uses Generative Artificial intelligence and 3D modeling to add the optical illusion the multi-sensory effect,
which are shown well with the structural characteristics of XR lab. 
   
Ulsan Art Museum gives the moment to think about the cultural identity of Ulsan through the immersive video
with scenes of various lives and nature that Ulsan embraces.