MILAN
CONTINUUM exhibit in Milan!
Urban Pixels is a public art exhibition curated by MoCDA in collaboration with EssilorLuxottica featuring Entangled Others Studio, Lethabo Huma, Krista Kim, Giuseppe Lo Schiavo and XCOPY. The works will be exhibited on screens located in some of the most famous and busy areas of Milan (San Babila, Cadorna Square and Cordusio Square), London (Covent Garden) and New York (Times Square). Each work will be installed a few days apart and will remain on display for four weeks.
TIMES SQUARE NYC | MIDNIGHT MOMENT
Kim’s peaceful digital reflection takes over Times Square as the world persists through a pandemic that has disrupted and transformed our everyday lives, mental health, and collective well-being for almost two full years. Using the technology of our times, she creates a communal space that allows viewers to decompress.
Hoping to shift her audiences into a state of positive digital consciousness, Kim draws from a massive database of LED light photography, photoshop, binary code and dynamic software along with leading digital printers and progressive engineers to produce her vibrant colourscapes. Originally produced in collaboration with Efren Mur, Kim originally created Continuum as a large-scale sound and light installation with Smashing Pumpkins guitarist Jeff Schroeder, who composed healing frequency music in correlation with the energy of Kim’s visuals. A special event to experience their collaboration of light and sound live from Times Square will be announced soon.
This Midnight Moment presentation is the next stop on the Continuum world tour, which has included appearances in China, Toronto, Miami, Los Angeles, and an NFT auction curated by Steve Aoki.
CONTINUUM TIMES SQUARE | MIDNIGHT MOMENT
For the month of February, synchronized across 90 electronic billboards at 11:57pm every night CONTINUUM will wash Times Square in healing light for 3 minutes each night, bringing calm to the hustle and bustle of the heart of New York.
MIAMI | ART BASEL
Art World Leader Sotheby's will be auctioning off this exclusive 1/1 NFT on September 30th.
This is the first Public art Installation NFT in History.
CONTINUUM is a Global Movement.
TORONTO
From October 1st - 4th, the CONTINUUM World Tour will launch in Krista Kim’s hometown of Toronto, Canada. As the world begins to emerge out of a global pandemic that has disrupted and transformed our everyday lives, mental health and well-being are now recognized as crucial self-care practices for everyone.
CONTINUUM is a meditative generated animation by Krista Kim in collaboration with Efren Mur. It will be featured in Toronto to bring healing and wellness to the community. In a symbolic act of healing and rebirth, the work will be installed at Fort York National Historic Site, transforming it from a military fortification implicated in colonial history into a light of hope for the future.
With original music composed and performed live by Smashing Pumpkins guitarist Jeff Schroeder, CONTINUUM features a free-standing video wall measuring 100 ft. long along the original lakeshore lines of Lake Ontario paired with immersive healing sound frequencies; CONTINUUM is the largest sound and light installation in Toronto’s Fort York History.
Local visitors will be invited to participate at their own socially distant leisure throughout the 4-day experience.
CONTINUUM is a light and sound video installation that creates a meditative space for the viewer. Krista Kim produced this large-scale artwork in a slow animation for a 20-minute sequence. This piece was made in collaboration with Smashing Pumpkins guitarist Jeff Schroeder, who has composed healing frequency music in correlation with the energy of Krista Kim’s visuals.
This immersive experience has a profound effect of calm, well-being and meditativeness.
Numerous scientific studies have proven the social, psychological, and health benefits of meditation. And mindfulness is now becoming more mainstream as people flock to meditation classes, wellness retreats, and yoga centers.
We believe that meditation and mindfulness are essential to restoring balance within ourselves and our communities.
Krista Kim believes in the healing and transformational power of visual art + sound + meditation on an individual and social level.
Our society is experiencing digital overload; we have become addicted to our digital devices. Capturing moments on our Smart Phones and posting them on social media to earn “likes” has trumped the actual experience of life. Social behaviour has become egocentric with more value being given to virtual popularity, than personal reflection. As a community, we crave authenticity and self-awareness. But how can we overcome our digital overload?
Japanese Buddhist monks built Zen gardens over 1200 years ago to create a communal space that visually imparts a sense of meditativeness and mindfulness. In 2021, our communities need public art spaces that will do the same thing; spaces that allow people to decompress from the stresses of everyday life using the digital language of our times.
ROADMAP
KRISTA KIM
Krista Kim is bringing her large-scale immersive video installations to various global events to help promote mental health awareness through the healing power of art and technology.
Krista Kim is a contemporary artist and founder of the Techism movement since 2014, promoting the confluence of art and technology and technological innovation as a medium to further the development of digital humanism. She believes that artists must participate at the vanguard of technological innovation in order to contribute to the creation of future culture during this pivotal period of technological innovation, adaptation, and disruption. In her Digital Consciousness series, Krista gathers digital images of LED Lights to digitally paint and manipulate them using multiple software to create her artwork, a technique that she has developed since 2012.
JEFF SCHROEDER
Kim collaborated with the esteemed guitarist of the Smashing Pumpkins, Jeff Schroeder, who provided the music for this piece and will be performing live in Toronto.
Jeffrey Kim Schroeder, born February 4, 1974, in Los Angeles, California, is an American rock musician, who became a guitarist with the alternative rock band The Smashing Pumpkins in 2007.
He is currently finishing his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature at UCLA, where he specializes in Asian American Literature, Francophone Literature, and Critical Theory.
WORLD TOUR
ARANYA, CHINA
September 9 - 12, 2021: CONTINUUM is a large-scale meditative generated installation in collaboration with musician Jeff Schroeder of the Smashing Pumpkins.
CONTINUUM will also be a part of the premier of the film Dune in China and is continued to be programmed across the country. We are bringing CONTINUUM around the world for healing, unity and well-being in the digital age. Special thanks to my Shanghai production partner, Output.
