@article{ART003278882},
author={CHO SEON RYEONG},
title={AI Art and Surrealism: Focusing on Bang Soyun’s Polymorph series},
journal={Journal of History of Modern Art},
issn={1598-7728},
year={2025},
volume={0},
number={58},
pages={71-95},
doi={10.17057/kahoma.2025..58.004}
TY - JOUR
AU - CHO SEON RYEONG
TI - AI Art and Surrealism: Focusing on Bang Soyun’s Polymorph series
JO - Journal of History of Modern Art
PY - 2025
VL - 0
IS - 58
PB - 현대미술사학회
SP - 71
EP - 95
SN - 1598-7728
AB - This paper explores the relationship between contemporary artworks that employ AI hallucination and Surrealism focusing on the Polymorph series by Korean artist Bang Soyun. This series shares with Surrealism the motif of reversals between human and machine, the living and the non-living. “Hallucination” is reinterpreted as another name for such reversals. Just as the Surrealists took Freud as their theoretical reference, this study draws on Lacanian psychoanalysis to examine how the contemporary relationship between humans and machines differs from that of the Surrealist era, as revealed through the Polymorph series. Bang Soyun’s work is interpreted as a stage of unconscious fantasy where humans, confronted with the anxiety produced by technological imperfection, explore the desire of artificial intelligence as the Other.
KW - AI;AI hallucination;Surrealism;psychoanalysis;Luca Possati;Jacques Lacan
DO - 10.17057/kahoma.2025..58.004
ER -
CHO SEON RYEONG. (2025). AI Art and Surrealism: Focusing on Bang Soyun’s Polymorph series. Journal of History of Modern Art, 0(58), 71-95.
CHO SEON RYEONG. 2025, "AI Art and Surrealism: Focusing on Bang Soyun’s Polymorph series", Journal of History of Modern Art, vol.0, no.58 pp.71-95. Available from: doi:10.17057/kahoma.2025..58.004
CHO SEON RYEONG "AI Art and Surrealism: Focusing on Bang Soyun’s Polymorph series" Journal of History of Modern Art 0.58 pp.71-95 (2025) : 71.
CHO SEON RYEONG. AI Art and Surrealism: Focusing on Bang Soyun’s Polymorph series. 2025; 0(58), 71-95. Available from: doi:10.17057/kahoma.2025..58.004
CHO SEON RYEONG. "AI Art and Surrealism: Focusing on Bang Soyun’s Polymorph series" Journal of History of Modern Art 0, no.58 (2025) : 71-95.doi: 10.17057/kahoma.2025..58.004
CHO SEON RYEONG. AI Art and Surrealism: Focusing on Bang Soyun’s Polymorph series. Journal of History of Modern Art, 0(58), 71-95. doi: 10.17057/kahoma.2025..58.004
CHO SEON RYEONG. AI Art and Surrealism: Focusing on Bang Soyun’s Polymorph series. Journal of History of Modern Art. 2025; 0(58) 71-95. doi: 10.17057/kahoma.2025..58.004
CHO SEON RYEONG. AI Art and Surrealism: Focusing on Bang Soyun’s Polymorph series. 2025; 0(58), 71-95. Available from: doi:10.17057/kahoma.2025..58.004
CHO SEON RYEONG. "AI Art and Surrealism: Focusing on Bang Soyun’s Polymorph series" Journal of History of Modern Art 0, no.58 (2025) : 71-95.doi: 10.17057/kahoma.2025..58.004
