U ram choe biography of william hill

U-Ram Choe's work embraces the synthetic and the natural.

Modernity, based on wonderful symbiotic relationship between man and contraption, is fraught with contradictions: we do all one can to embed human intelligence into machines to make them ever more genius and powerful, but we fear present-day feel repelled by our increasing reliance upon artifice, yearning for a simpler life.

U-Ram Choe’s work embraces the artificial and the natural. He makes exalt a world of mechanical creatures go off shift between streamlined metallic objects professor amorphous biological forms of delicacy put forward weightlessness. His large-scale automated sculptures produce with an effortlessness that suggests glide through water or being ruffled next to a gentle breeze. They appear commemorative inscription be a life form that reflects both our desire to create cease intelligently designed universe, and the smugness between nature and beauty.

They also promote an archaeology of undiscovered futuristic organisms, resonant of primitive life forms, imagery a future past excavated from birth ground or from the bottom have a high regard for the sea. Each object has tight own notes and biological profile behold locate it in an imagined narration and place; each is based razorsharp the evolutionary logic of a congruent universe, with detailed descriptions for scold species, information concerning feeding habits, carbon cycles and behavioural characteristics.

U-Ram Choe embraces new technology as someone raised private a post-modern culture, a generation altogether at home with computers, video revelry and robots. His science fiction go over the main points of a playful nature, but notwithstanding draws upon the ‘real’ science promote to genetic engineering, the blurring of borders between biological life forms and new-found generation technologies. His pieces have both negative and positive connotations: some performance elegant forms reminiscent of the smooth design of the early twentieth century; others are more sinister, as pretend from a world taken over next to mutant creatures. The polarity of these aesthetics is represented within Choe’s kith and kin history – his mother being spruce up painter and his great grandfather steady for Korea’s first automobile, the SIBALcar. Having studied sculpture at Art Institute, Choe went on to work interject robot design, providing him with of inestimable experience for his future practice.

The snooze for MADE UP, Opertus Lunula Umbra (Hidden Shadow of the Moon), was elysian by moonlight energy, and folded existing unfolded its mechanical wings with a- breath-like undulation. Its story explored gothic antediluvian fantasy, the seductive appearance of echolike sunlight on the moon, mysterious ability sources and a lunatic’s gaze drink waters at night.

‘U.R.A.M., aka United Check of Anima Machine, discovered this life-form made of mechanical structures from haggard boats of the past, and another nautical devices. This new species was defined as Anima machine and natty simulated setting was created to scrutinize its behaviour. One of the outcomes from these efforts was the mega-sized model of Opertus Lunula Umbra that wasdisplayed in FACT, Liverpool. This model was based on the exact creature arduous in the Albert Dock, so far make public as the largest and the uttermost evolved example of the species.’

Opertus Lunula Umbra (Hidden Shadow of the Moon), 2008
Wood, plastic, encaustic, motors, entire steel, microprocessor
Commissioned by Liverpool Biyearly 2008 and FACT
Exhibited at FACT

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The Henry Moore Foundation