Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism to Hold 'Online Media Arts Activity Support Project' Performance Sharing Meeting on the 23rd

Scene of an experimental activity for an online performing arts creation model.

[Asia Economy Reporter Donghyun Choi] Dynamic audiovisual art unfolds in a virtual room with a 360° panoramic screen. The plectrum busily moves over the strings of the yanggeum, and restrained breaths scatter through the pipes of the saenghwang. The pastoral melody lingers with a deep aftertaste, and the artist performs as a three-dimensional digital figure in the virtual space.

This is one of the non-face-to-face performance scenes we will experience in the post-COVID-19 era. The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, which has supported challenges and experiments in the arts, will hold the 'Online Media Arts Activity Support Project Performance Sharing Meeting' with the Arts Council Korea at 10 a.m. on the 23rd. The event will be broadcast live on the Arts Council Korea's YouTube channel.

The Ministry and the Arts Council Korea have been promoting the 'Online Media Arts Activity Support Project' since August last year with the third supplementary budget, in cooperation with 17 metropolitan and provincial cultural foundations. This project supports experimental content creation using online media and provides education on copyright, digital devices, and program utilization methods.

The support recipients were selected through a public contest. Especially, this contest received high interest from the art field struggling with creative difficulties due to COVID-19, recording an average competition rate of 4.2 to 1. Among 4,827 project proposals submitted, a total of 1,141 works were supported for creation through evaluation.

At the performance sharing meeting, among the 1,141 creative works, 'Noteworthy Excellent Works' demonstrating artistic experimentation, completeness, and potential for development will be selected and awarded. The evaluation panel, consisting of 1,874 citizens and 24 art field experts, selected 14 excellent works through a three-stage evaluation process. Each excellent work will receive a prize of 5 million KRW and the 'Art Change-Up Award.'

There will also be presentations on cases for sustainable online art activities and lectures on copyright and customized art content planning methods. Experimental activities of performing arts creation models using online platforms are expected to provide new solutions for artists facing difficulties in non-face-to-face environments.

The Ministry expects this event to serve not only to share and disseminate project achievements but also to be an opportunity to foster the digital transformation of the arts and create an art ecosystem of 'D (Data), N (Network), A (AI).'

A policy official from the Ministry stated, “Despite the non-face-to-face constraints caused by COVID-19, we have seen the sustainability and new development potential of art through online media. We will continue to actively support artists and art organizations to pursue new challenges.”

This content was produced with the assistance of AI translation services.