PAM would also like to congratulate the Korean artist Hye Yeon Nam for tieing with Sjors Veroort from Holland as second runner up in the Metropolis Art Prize. You all may remember in September Hye Yeon also won the United Creators Zeigeist Award as well and was presented in an exhibition at Bang & Olufsen Soho. Hye Yeon is definately a rising star in the PAM community and someone to keep an eye on in the years to come. Be sure not to miss the perfectly situated screening of Wonderland in Time Square on Thursday December 17, from 7-8. For more information CLICK HERE

Wonderland Statement Space takes on multiple definitions. For me, I understand space as the sum of cultural and social forces that act on me. Through the space, my body feels all changes around me instantly and intimately. When I move from Korea to the United States, my body became a gauge that felt my displacement and recognized not only the conformity inflicted on me in the United States, but it also allowed me to deconstruct the rule from my hometown that I had taken for granted as normal. In my video piece, I attempt to convey the feeling of displacement and conformity by acting of walking. I perform walking forward and other people seem to be walking backward. However, I was walking backward in the real scene and I made it simply reversed. The space of being neither here following correct rule nor there following incorrect rule is precisely what I try to convey in this video. Hye Yeon Nam is a digital media artist working in kinetic sculpture, audio and video in Atlanta and NYC. She is a Ph.D. candidate at Georgia Institute of Technology and holds a M.F.A. in digital media from Rhode Island School of Design. Her artwork reflects on human (e)motion, identity, and social issue. Hye Yeon's art has been showcased by The Tank NYC, eyebeam in New York, SIGGRAPH 2008, Gana Art Center in Korea, Scope Lincoln Center in New York, and Cafa Art Museum in Beijing. Her work has also been broadcasted on Discovery channel, and published in wired, and Makezine among other publications. See her PAM profile CLICK HERE To see more go to her website at http://www.hynam.org

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