The Korean video scene of the 80’s explored video in its brute form and the 90’s followed up by exploring the image as a property of video itself, demanding that the qualities of the image become exacerbated. By the 2000’s installation was imbedded in video art scene thus making for image to go to great lengths and plaster itself all around museum and gallery walls. Thereafter, image came to inhabit not only the monitor but also every surface upon which it could possibly project itself. Today, virtually generated images dominate every medium and insinuate themselves onto the subconscious of the beholder. In one way, image is galvanizing, in other way, it aims to visually suppress the medium, causing the beholder to watch a spectacle of phantoms, afterimages and Pepper’s Ghost effects. The medium thus becomes what is visible as prophesied by the likes of Jean-Louis Baudry following up from Plato readings.
