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Tradition And Technology: The Korean Folding Screen Goes High Tech

Lee Lee Nam advances the tradition of the ancient art form to the digital era.

In a world where technology accelerates our everyday lives to a pace that can often be overwhelming, it’s healthy to take a few steps back and slow things down. Media artist Lee Lee Nam takes it back to the classics, using cutting edge technology but limelighting the traditional art forms of his native Korea. He replaces canvases with monitors to move beyond the moving image art, taking traditional Korean painting to the level of post-modern video art

Today we feature one of his most memorable works, an iPad rendition of his digital eight-fold 51" LED monitors in the form of a traditional Korean folding screen. Lee transforms quaint pastorals, gliding cranes, and floating cherry blossoms into gently flowing interactions. From static to sensational, his melodic moving video art has been exhibited more than 200 times all over the world from New York to Beijing to Germany. You can even appreciate his easy-on-the-eye artworks easily on-the-go with his smart phone app.