Jung-Chul HUR is an artist, designer, curator, lecturer and also a VJ born in Masan, Korea in 1972. He did his B.F.A in Industrial Design (Major: Visual Communication Design) at the Konkuk University in Chungju, Korea from where he went on to complete an M.A. in Visual Communication at the Kent Institute of Art & Design in the UK between 1999 and 2000. His work, which encompasses video, animation and sound, has been shown at international festivals in Asia, Europe, and South and North America. He is currently based in Bangkok, Thailand, where he teaches Communication Design at the School of Architecture & Design, King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi (KMUTT).

The footage in this film comes from a coastal town in Thailand called Bang Poo. The place is well-known for having an abundance of migratory gulls and terns. It is also a popular domestic tourist destination famous for its seafood restaurants. The footage was digitally modified and duplicated, and, through mirrored imagery, alluding to a kaleidoscopic hole. In the beginning, we, the viewers, can anticipate images of bird motion. However, soon after the image of the birds starts to create a visual vortex. The viewer encounters a massive bombardment of these images. Sounds were recorded at the same time as the images were filmed. Thai viewers will understand that some voices in the film are of children shouting mostly about food as if they were in a feeding frenzy much like the birds. The film takes a benign view towards the subject allowing the viewer to identify with the film’s frenetic activity.

Radiate is an abstract audio-visual short film of constantly changing colours, light, shapes, lines and sounds. It combines the radiation of visual elements and mechanic sounds to create a dynamic representation of the spectacle itself. Viewers will experience an intense sense of anticipation, tension, surprise or probably a kind of catharsis. The work explores how our eyes and ears respond to this non-narrative but purely abstract cinematic experience.

A Beautiful Dream (version 2 –Sirima) is the second version of A Beautiful Dream which is video by Jung-Chul HUR (Korea) with the music of The Photo Sticker Machine (Thailand). The work tries to visualize a memory of love. The central character is at first revealed to us only through the massive kaleidoscopic images of movement which represent the encounter and acquaintance. Afterwards, she is revealed in the perfect form of her dancing in multiple, which is a metaphor of bliss. This dance is the material everything in the piece has been made from. Soon after, however, the image of her vanishes and we are left with only emptiness. She’s gone just like that… like a few minutes dream.