Angels and Demons

Daniel Muzyczuk

Aki Onda, Nam June’s Spirit was Speaking to Me, 2017/2022. field recordings, photos, videos, radios, text. dimensions variable. Reproduction supported by The 13th Seoul Mediacity Biennale. Courtesy of the artist. The 13th Seoul Mediacity Biennale Séance: Technology of Spirit. NAKWON SANGGA unit 412, 2025. Photo: Hong Cheolki

Aki Onda, *Nam June's Spirit was Speaking to Me*, 2017/2022. field recordings, photos, videos, radios, text. dimensions variable. Reproduction supported by The 13th Seoul Mediacity Biennale. Courtesy of the artist. The 13th Seoul Mediacity Biennale *Séance: Technology of Spirit*. NAKWON SANGGA unit 412, 2025. Photo: Hong Cheolki

Daniel Muzyczuk is the director of Muzeum Sztuki in Łódź. Curator of exhibitions including Sounding the Body Electric: Experiments in Art and Music in Eastern Europe 1957–1984 (with David Crowley), Notes from the Underground: Art and Alternative Music in Eastern Europe 1968-1994 (with David Crowley), The Museum of Rhythm (with Natasha Ginwala) Through The Soundproof Curtain: The Polish Radio Experimental Studio (with Michał Mendyk), Work, work, work (work). Céline Condorelli and Wendelien van Oldenborgh (with Joanna Sokołowska), among others. Co-curator of the Polish Pavilion of the 55th Venice Biennale (with Agnieszka Pindera). His upcoming book is entitled Twilight of the Magicians (2025, Spector Books).

Research Title

Angels and Demons
Participants

Daniel Muzyczuk
Publishing Date

2025-09-11
Languages

Korean
Editions

SMB13
Categories

Essay
Keywords

new media séance technology

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Research Title Angels and Demons

Category Essay

Edition The 13th Seoul Mediacity Biennale

Author Daniel Muzyczuk

The English version of this essay can be found in e-flux journal #156, a special issue for the 13th Seoul Mediacity Biennale Séance: Technology of the Spirit.

Link: https://www.e-flux.com/journal/156/6776745/angels-and-demons

It will also be available on this SMB website from mid-October.

This essay is originally commissioned for the 13th Seoul Mediacity Biennale Catalogue, Séance: Technology of the Spirit (Seoul: Seoul Museum of Art, Mediabus, 2025), scheduled for publication on October, 2025. With the author’s consent, it is being published in advance on the Seoul Mediacity Biennale website and e-flux Journal. No part of this essay may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means without the prior written permission of the author, Seoul Museum of Art and Mediabus, Seoul.