Strolling Through Digital Errors: Artists Expose Cracks in the Virtual World
Creatrip Team
a month ago
Seoul National University Museum of Art’s group exhibition “Strolling with Errors” (오류를 거니는 산책자) presents works by 12 artists who probe distortions and anxieties in the digital age. Using glitches, AI misreads, and camera artifacts as material, artists transform technical failures into critical artworks. Ahn Tae-won highlights a software glitch that swapped a cat’s paws with a man’s, while Bang So-yoon shows AI failing to distinguish masks from human skin, creating hybrid beings. Kim Cheon-su uses the “jello effect” (젤로 효과) from digital cameras to warp images of high-rise redevelopment apartments, suggesting how dense urban redevelopment can produce social distortions. Lee Eun-sol turns a real SNS hacking experience into a fictional character, “Kimberly,” who becomes a vulnerable, head-only figure falling victim to digital scams, symbolizing precarious city life. Curator Sim Sang-yong frames errors not as flaws to erase but as portals to the unknown that challenge utopian tech narratives. The exhibition runs through March 29.
