Max Cooper is an electronic composer, multi-disciplinary artist, music label founder, and former scientist who has carved out a unique space in music and visual art. Cooper has enquired for over 15 years through music, collaborations, and his label Mesh, to explore the intersections between the arts and sciences with installations, performances, immersive experiences, online media, music videos, and live events. Creative coding and new media artist Ksawery Kirklewski is the author of interactive light installations, music videos, generative animations, phygital art pieces, and projects in public space. He uses new technologies, programming, and advertising media, focusing mostly on the digital and generative art field. Born in Chorwon and based in Seoul, fine artist Minjeong An completed her residency program in Korea at the Cheongju Art Studio in 2015. She has exhibited on her own throughout Korea and as part of group exhibitions in Korea, Taiwan, China, the United Kingdom, Poland, and various locations throughout the United States.
Originally presented by W1 Curates, On Being is an exhibition and community project by Max Cooper in collaboration with creative coding and new media artist Ksawery Komputery and fine artist Minjeong An. The exhibition displays in real time where you can share things you would like to express but can’t in everyday life. Would you dare to share your deepest thoughts in the middle of Oxford Street?
Powerful works of art have traditionally sprung from some source deep within an artist and, if they strike the right tone, resonate with an audience to leave a lasting mark. But what if that equation were reversed: what if an artist were to draw their inspiration from deep within their audience, and use that to reflect those ideas, emotions, hopes, fears, pains, and aspirations back to us?
Over a two-year period, Max Cooper has collected and interpreted anonymous quotes, leading to the On Being Installation with Ksawery Komputery and Minjeong An, and the forthcoming On Being album.
Attendees can add their own thoughts to the installation in real time via a QR code, as the 7-piece immersive audio-visual story plays out around them.