Paul C. (Cho Hong-Rai)
Media Artist
Media artist Paul C. (Cho Hong-Rai) explores new aesthetics at the intersection of design and art, technology and craft, the analog and the digital. Having pioneered cross-disciplinary experiments in digital convergence, he has developed the genre of “digital craft,” where painterly sensibility meets technological inquiry.
His work fuses the tactile materiality of traditional form with the transformative potential of digital media, creating spaces in which perception and thought unfold simultaneously. For Paul C., the digital is not a tool but a sensory language—of light and shadow, of the trajectory of time—through which he has established himself as one of the defining practitioners of contemporary Korean media art.
Sculpting Time with Light: The Aesthetics of Paul C.
Paul C.’s artistic practice begins with the granular unit of the digital—particles of light—and expands into an inquiry into the relations of time and space. His works capture the flow of time through the movement of light and the traces of shadow, translating them into a sculptural language. NEWance, Light and Shadow (DDP, 2022) transforms analog nuance into digital form, revealing an aesthetic of tension and equilibrium.
The Canvas of Light series structures luminous trajectories within the frame, opening them into meditative temporal spaces, while BIT DOZA fuses a traditional object with light to reframe artisanal time in a contemporary idiom. Emerging from the interplay of digital and analog, form and technology, his distinctive artistic language condenses the many journeys of his practice into resonant clarity.
