Jury members in the Prix Category New Animation Art, Nora O Murchú and Helen Starr will moderate a discussion with Golden Nica winner Ayoung Kim (KR) and the two Award of Distinction winners Bassam Issa (IE) and SANGHEE (KR).
Ayoung Kim (KR) is an artist with a very diverse practice, blending geopolitics, mythology, technology, and futuristic iconography. Her artworks take the forms of video, virtual reality (VR), game simulation, sonic fiction, and text. She synthesizes the outcomes of far-reaching speculation, establishing connections between biopolitics and border controls, the memories of stones and virtual memories, and ancestral origins and imminent futures.