Korean Internet Tour Day

Korean Internet Tour Guide is an attempt to examine the history of Korean internet from the points of view of both users and producers as well as insiders and observers. Korean Internet Tour Guide is a collection of moments in which diverse social elements such as technological conditions, users, work style, and political and economic interests have contributed in shaping the country’s internet; these moments center around software interfaces that people used to access the internet and participate in its production.

As a public program concurrent with the project, Korean Internet Tour Day provides two complementary approaches to the Korean internet. The first session looks at the internet as a given environment resulting from governement policies: Kim Kee-Chang and Jay Yoon will examine the government-imposed security framework exemplified by ActiveX and authentication certificates. The second session examines the internet as a field of experience and activity by the individual. The artists invited two other projects in order to discuss the individual’s experience and behavior, around keywords such as making, communities and online feminism.