Media artist Hoonida Kim’s work Fine-Tuning Human Sense 2.0 has received an Honorary Mention in the Artificial Life and Artificial Intelligence category at the Prix Ars Electronica, one of the world’s most prestigious awards in media art. 

The Prix Ars Electronica, organized by the Ars Electronica Foundation in Austria, is recognized as the world’s leading media art award, presented to artists who demonstrate creativity and innovation through the use of digital media.

Hoonida Kim’s ‘Fine-Tuning Human Sense’ series employs autonomous driving sensors and artificial intelligence to enable new ways of perceiving space through alternative sensory experiences. Initiated in 2019, the project has explored new modes of sensing the environment by using LiDAR technology to translate visual landscapes into soundscapes, making perceptible what was previously beyond human sensory perception. 

The award-winning work represents a further evolution of this series through the integration of advanced AI and spatial sound technologies. In this version, AI functions not merely as a tool but as a mediator of spatial perception. Viewers fine-tune their sensory awareness through the act of blinking, confronting the gap between AI’s predictive systems and their own embodied sensory experience.

Through these works, Hoonida Kim poses the question: “In an age when information floods us at speeds beyond human computation, are we truly tuning and embodying anything in a way that suits ourselves?” The artist emphasizes the necessity of a critical form of fine-tuning—one that enables the body not to remain a passive tool amid technological acceleration, but to actively acquire and reinterpret information.

Hoonida Kim has been focusing on technology that deeply penetrates through the human ecology, as well as the transformations in ecology triggered by technology. Human perception and sensibility fails to track the speed of social change and is unable to sense and analyze the enormous amount of information flooding our society.
 
With such acknowledgement, Hoonida Kim has been producing “environmental recognition apparatuses” to actively respond to such changes. He has also made unique attempts to directly and indirectly implant these “environmental recognition apparatuses” to humans. 

He has held solo exhibitions such as 《Appetizers for Indifferent Ears from A to C: NEO PRODUCT Manifesto》 (ThisWeekendRoom, Seoul, 2021) and 《FamiliarityᆞCumulatingᆞRunning—Unfamiliar Translation of Everyday Life》 (Perigee Gallery, Seoul, 2018). He took part in group exhibitions like 《MMCA Performing Arts 2021: Multiverse》 (MMCA, Seoul 2021), 《The 21st SONGEUN Art Award Exhibition》 (SONGEUN, Seoul, 2021), 《un-less》 (DOOSAN Gallery, Seoul, 2021), and 《2020 Paradise Art Lab Festival》 (Paradise Artspace, Incheon, 2020).

References

• 국립현대미술관 보도자료 (National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea (MMCA) Press Release)
• 프리 아르스 일렉트로니카 2025 (Prix Ars Electronica 2025)
• 후니다 킴, Hoonida Kim (Artist Website)