An Evening with Ayoung Kim

Ayoung Kim joins us to present a selection of her speculative fiction–inspired shorts, including the US premiere of Delivery Dancer’s Sphere (2023), for which she was the first Korean artist to receive the Prix Ars Electronica. While Kim’s practice draws on legacies of cyberfeminism and video game design, her videos, installations, and performances are equally rooted in the real. Kim’s newest film follows a character whose movements are governed by a different kind of system: a top-rated gig worker whose algorithmically determined delivery routes unleash an increasingly surreal version of Seoul. Combining computer-generated imagery with live action, Delivery Dancer’s Sphere is a labyrinthine journey in which performance metrics jostle with self-discovery in a thrilling meditation on digital labor.

The screening is followed by a conversation with the artist, moderated by Sophie Cavoulacos, associate curator in the Department of Film.