4th Annual Asian Pacific American Festival of the Arts
Phototaxis

4th Annual Asian Pacific American Festival of the Arts

Phototaxis

May 1st - June 6th, 2026

3314 S Morgan st. Chicago, Storefront Gallery​

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Phototaxis gathers artistic practices navigating the pull of light. In the biological sense, phototaxis describes an instinct toward illumination. In contemporary life, it echoes in our reflexive turn toward the subtle glow of the screen. We move toward this radiance for the presence of others beyond it, a shared orientation and a quiet resonance among those who feel the same pull.

 

This exhibition understands light as a gathering force. Across distance and separation, it becomes a way of sensing one another. Through gestures of sending and receiving, we recognize who is near, who is distant, and how we exist in relation to each other.

 

Within diaspora, mutual illumination through media becomes necessary. When bodies are dispersed, connection travels through the glow of shared screens. The screen becomes a meeting ground where memory, identity, belonging, and fate intertwine. Presence forms through sustained attention, participation, and time shared across space.

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About Curators

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Ian Kang

 

Ian Kang is a Chicago based artist and curator whose projects engage Asian diaspora, artificial intelligence, and real time media systems. His curatorial practice brings together artists working with computational infrastructures, game engines, creative coding and interactive sound to explore how these systems shape cultural memory and collective perception through experimentation and participation.

 

Yun Lee

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Yun Lee is a Chicago-based artist and curator exploring Asian migration, memory, and gesture through moving images. Working across experimental cinema and real-time audiovisual systems, he constructs exhibitions as spatial-temporal compositions, examining how images travel, shape perception, and act as sites of translation between memory, identity, body, and space.

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