Hyundai Motor Names New York's New Museum and Abu Dhabi Foundation as Translocal Series Partners
Hyundai Motor Company has added four new international art institutions, including New York's New Museum and the Abu Dhabi Music & Arts Foundation, to its cross-regional artistic collaboration initiative.
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What Happened
Hyundai Motor Company today announced new partner institutions for the Hyundai Translocal Series, an initiative that fosters cross-regional artistic collaborations between art institutions in Korea and across the globe. The newly established exchanges will bring together the Ulsan Art Museum (Ulsan, Korea) and the New Museum (New York, USA), as well as the Seo-Seoul Museum of Art (Seoul, Korea) and the Abu Dhabi Music & Arts Foundation (Abu Dhabi, UAE).
First annual exhibition begins at the New Museum in New York, featuring commissioned works by artist Ho Tzu Nyen.
First annual exhibition opens at the Ulsan Art Museum's XR Lab in Korea.
Newly commissioned works from the Seo-Seoul Museum of Art and Abu Dhabi Music & Arts Foundation collaboration presented in Abu Dhabi.
Works from the same collaboration presented in Seoul.
“We are delighted to announce the Ulsan Art Museum and the New Museum, alongside the Seo-Seoul Museum of Art and the Abu Dhabi Music & Arts Foundation, as participating institutions in the Hyundai Translocal Series. We look forward to embracing new dialogues and perspectives that will emerge through these collaborations as partner institutions deepen their understanding of locality and relationalit”
“The collaboration for the Hyundai Translocal Series is of great significance as a platform for cultural dialogue and as a global initiative. It stimulates artistic innovation and knowledge-based research at the intersection of the arts and artificial intelligence, while supporting cross-border collaborative projects.”
Why this matters
The initiative demonstrates Hyundai's commitment to fostering global cultural dialogue and supporting experimental art, including AI-related projects, as part of its corporate identity.
Terms in This Story
- translocal
- Relating to connections across different local contexts; transcending local boundaries.
- XR Lab
- Extended Reality Laboratory; a space for virtual, augmented, and mixed reality experiences.
- MBZUAI
- Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence; a university in Abu Dhabi focused on AI research.
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