AMAEBCH (2022)

Overview

The title of eobchae’s film AMAEBCH is a combination of acronyms reflecting the collective’s latest interests in Web 3 - ‘AMA’ as the abbreviation of ‘Ask me anything’ from social media culture and ‘EBCH’ as a cryptocurrency symbol for ‘Eobchaecoin’. The protagonist of AMAEBCH is ‘Bisamuncheon’, a king of the afterlife from The Tale of Seol Gongchan, a novel from medieval Korea. In AMAEBCH, Bisamuncheon manifests itself as an executive of ‘Eobchaecoin(altcoin created by eobchae)’ via scattered body graphics generated from LiDAR sensor, answering the questions created from GPT-3. The questioners of AMA are the sentient beings who are eager to know the destiny of Eobchaecoin. By introducing a supreme existence to bridge the three recent artworks from 2020 to 2022 in the film, eobchae shares a possible world where the fictional entities based on very different periods can exist together.

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