Unmake Lab

Interview
CV
Formed in 2016
Lives and works in Seoul
Selected Solo Exhibitions and Projects
2023
Popular Creatures, ARTSPACE BOAN 2, Seoul, Korea
2019
Operation Room, space imsi, Incheon, Korea
2018
Whole Data Catalog, Space 413, Seoul, Korea
2017–ongoing
Forking Room, Seoul, Korea
Selected Group Exhibitions and Screenings
2025
Korea Artist Prize 2025, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
When Spiders Spin Dusk, Coreana Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
2024
ARE YOU FOR REAL Phase 2: Agents of Fluid Predictions (Online Screening)
Carnival of Shipwreck, The Bridge, Toronto, Canada
PANSORI, a Soundscape of the 21st Century, 15th Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju Biennale Exhibition Hall, Gwangju, Korea
What an Artificial World, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Cheongju, Korea
2023
Sorry, Frankenstein, Jeonbuk Museum of Art, Wanju, Korea
Nine Nodes of Non-Being, 421, Abu Dhabi, Arab Emirates
On Collecting Time, Nam June Paik Art Center, Yongin, Korea
2022
Mobile Scenarios for the Metamorphic Beings, Framer Framed, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
PLANT CITY, G Valley Industrial Museum, Seoul, Korea
Exceptional Times, Uncertain Moves, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
2021
Open Codes. Networked Commons, Nam June Paik Art Center, Yongin, Korea
The Pearl Diver, Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Ansan, Korea
Digital Storytellers, Unfold X, DDP Design Museum, Seoul, Korea
Unreal World, space imsi, Incheon, Korea
2020
Tangible Error, d/p, Seoul, Korea
c-lab 4.0: UN+CONTACT, Coreana Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
2019
Unlock, National Museum of Democracy and Human Rights, Seoul, Korea
The Security has been Improved, Coreana Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
2018
The Dutch Savannah, Museum De Domijnen, Sittard, The Netherlands
Looms & Battles, Total Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
2017
Futures of the Past, 2017 Gwangju Design Biennale, Gwangju Biennale Exhibition Hall, Gwangju, Korea
Future Base, Oil Tank Culture Park T1, Seoul, Korea
Immortal Makeshifts, Seoul Art Space Mullae, Seoul, Korea
Our Bright Future – Cybernetic Fantasy, Nam June Paik Art Center, Yongin, Korea
do it 2017, Seoul, Ilmin Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
2016
Micro City Lab, Indie Art Hall Gong, Seoul, Korea
Selected Lectures and Workshops
2024
Gwangju Biennale Symposium, “Echoes of Tomorrow: Soundscapes in the Age of Advanced Computing,” National Asian Cultural Center, Gwangju, Korea
“Eco-logical Futures,” SNU Powerplant, Seoul, Korea
2023
“Decolonial Curatorial Agendas for a Green New Deal,” Art Sonje Center, Seoul, Korea
“Climate Future#2: Belonging and Shared Responsibilities,” NTU CCA, Singapore
“Disaster, Machine Learning, Dataset-ting,” National Asian Culture Center, Gwangju, Korea
International Symposium, “Circularity,” Seoul National University Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
2022
Abnormal Behavior, Extinction, and Datasets, ADL, Seoul, Korea
“Disaster Haggyo,” KAIST Center for Anthropocene Studies, Daejeon, Korea
“Sentence Miner: Writing with AI,” Gyeonggi Cultural Arts Education Lab, Suwon, Korea
2021
“Tinkering with AI Datasets,” ieum Center, Seoul, Korea
2020
“Generic Nature, Slow Disaster: Life in the Age of Disaster,” KOTE, Seoul, Korea
“Teaching Game,” Art Collider Lab of Korea National University of Arts, Seoul, Korea
2019
“Label Me! : Data Pantomime,” Nam June Paik Art Center, Yongin, Korea
2017
“Data Crafting,” National Asian Cultural Center, Gwangju, Korea
“European Lab forum,” Les Subsistances, Lyon, France
Selected Grants
2023
Grant for Arts and Technology Convergence Support Program, Arts Council Korea, Korea
2022
Grant for Arts and Technology Convergence Support Program, Arts Council Korea, Korea
2020
Unfold X, Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture, Korea
Selected Residencies
2024
MMCA Residency Changdong, Seoul, Korea
2020
Art Space Geumcheon, Seoul, Korea
Selected Publications
2024
Lee Kye Sung·Choi Binna. “Toy Models and Drunken Poets – GPT and Models of Generativity.” Forking Room Journal
2023
Kwak Youngbin·Yoon Wonhwa·Shim Hyowon, et al. Ecology in Latent Space: Disasters, Generative Neural Networks, and the Non-Futures. Seoul: Media Bus
Lee Kye Sung·Choi Binna. Context and Coincidence – GPT and Extractive Linguistics. Seoul: Media Bus
2021
Unmake Lab. Apophenia and the Sisyphus Dataset. Yongin: Nam June Paik Art Center
2017
Unmake Lab. Social and Cultural History of Kits. Seoul: Sewoon Labs
2015
Choi Binna. Generic Nature. Seoul: Mediabus
Selected Collections
Nam June Paik Art Center, Korea
Seo-Seoul Museum of Art, Korea