Streaming Museum exhibits "Cross-Korea" Korean moving image from 1930s - 2009, at launch of Tomorrow City, Asia's First Digital City, Song-do, Incheon, Korea The Hand of Destiny (Han Hyung-mo,1954) David Bowie & La La La Human Steps in Wrap Around the World,1988 Cradle Song-Blue Fish, 2009 Kim Joon New York,NY--Streaming Museum, a new hybrid museum that exhibits the arts in cyberspace and pubic spaces on 7 continents, is commemorating the launch of Tomorrow City, Incheon, Korea, Asia's first digital city, with the exhibition "Cross-Korea: Come Join Us, Mr. Orwell". The exhibition, which will be on view August 7 - October 25 in Tomorrow City's Open Theater and viewed internationally, presents a collection of Korean moving image from the 1930s to 2009 curated by Art Center Nabi, the Nam June Paik Art Center and the Korean Film Archive. Dooeun Choi, curator of Art Center Nabi, explains, "Streaming Museum takes the exhibition 'Crossing-Korea' on a trans-continental journey. The hope is that through creative communication and culture exchanges between ten different countries in seven continents, through the open window - Tomorrow City's Open Theater electric sign - we'll discover and meet the worldwide community in our future city." Korean Film Archives Korean Film Archives is the only institution in Korea that nationally collects, preserves, and utilizes valuable cultural heritage films. Opened in 1974, Korean Film Archives is currently working to preserve cultural heritage films. establish a film library of up-to-date multimedia, a cinematech movie screen, and Korean film museum to create a place ‘where every movie in the world exists.' The Archives has curated for "Cross-Korea" a collection of work entitled "Film and City: Seoul landscape, from Kyungsung to Seoul" that illustrates both the fascination and resistance against the modern period portrayed in the Korean films that were produced during the 1930s to 1950s when colonization and war existed. For information on the flimmakers and film titles exhibited go to streamingmuseum.org Nam June Paik Art Center Nam June Paik (born 1932 in Seoul, died 2007 in Miami) was one of the most important artists of the 20th century. A trained composer, Paik was first a performance artist and later initiated TV art, Video art, Satellite art and Laser art. The Nam June Paik Art Center, in Yongin, a city on the outskirts of Seoul, is supported by the Gyeonggi Cultural Foundation and Gyeonggi Province. The Center opened its permanent building in April 2008. Under the current director, Young Chul Lee, it aspires to reactivate the experimental and interventionist spirit of 20th century and contemporary art practices in order to become a locus where aesthetic, political and social potentialities contribute to questioning and redefining the relationships between art, philosophy, media and life. The Center has curated for "Cross-Korea", "Nam June Paik: Electronic Performance" - a compilation of excerpts from videos he created with the video synthesizer, a machine he invented to juxtapose and manipulate images, always including elements of performance and featuring important artists of his time such as David Bowie, Joseph Beuys, Merce Cunningham, and Charlotte Moorman. Art Center Nabi Since its opening in 2000, Art Center Nabi has actively promoted new media arts in Korea. Exploring new possibilities of creation, education and exhibition of media arts. Art Center Nabi has been in the forefront of the convergence of art and media technologies of our time, developing new and effective ways to disseminate media arts to the public at large. Balancing creativity with critical perspectives, the Center seeks to contribute to the humanity and diversity of techno-culture today. Art Center Nabi has curated for "Cross Korea," "Digilog(ue) - a selection of work created in the past year by exceptional Korean media artists, Kim Joon, Hansol Huh. Joo Myoung Song, and Keryoon Han. Go to streamingmuseum.org to view the exhibition and for information on the artists and location schedules. ..Tomorrow City Open Theater, Song-do, Incheon, Korea Contact: Nina Colosi Founder / Creative Director, Streaming Museum This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it Streaming Museum (streamingmuseum.org) is a new hybrid museum that presents multi-media exhibitions in cyberspace and public spaces on 7 continents. Launched January 29, 2008 by Nina Colosi, the museum is produced and broadcast in NYC, with exhibitions generated in collaboration with international cultural, educational, and public centers; artists curators and visionary creators. The museum was inspired by Nam June Paik who in the 1970s envisioned the Internet, predicting an "information superhighway" as an open and free medium for imagination and exchange of cultures. Sponsors are FJC Foundation - A Foundation of Philanthropic Funds, and ONSSI. The museum is a member of the International Urban Screens Association.

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