A vanguard of new media art at MoMA PS1

This fall, MoMA PS1 opens its galleries to a major exhibition by South Korean artist Ayoung Kim, whose practice stands at the forefront of new media art. On view from November 6th, 2025, through March 16th, 2026, Ayoung Kim: Delivery Dancer Codex marks the U.S. debut of her celebrated Delivery Dancer trilogy, presented in its entirety for the first time, alongside a new large-scale project.

Kim is known for fusing generative AI, video game engines, and live-action cinema into intricate, speculative worlds where technology, mythology, and geopolitics intertwine. Her work explores how human labor, data, and the environment are reshaped by algorithmic systems and capitalist acceleration—a recurring theme across her “pandemic fiction” narratives.

Exploring digital labor through new media art

At the heart of the trilogy are two doppelgänger delivery drivers, En Storm and Ernst Mo—whose names rearrange to spell monster. In Delivery Dancer’s Sphere (2022), Kim imagines the women navigating a labyrinthine Seoul ruled by an algorithm called Dancemaster. Their endless routes, rendered through live-action footage and AI-generated sequences, become a haunting metaphor for the gig economy’s invisible pressures.

The sequel, Delivery Dancer’s Arc: 0° Receiver (2024), transports the pair into a futuristic multiverse, where their new mission is to deliver time itself. Here, Kim’s three-channel installation blends CGI, motion capture, and cinematic realism, dissolving the boundaries between physical and virtual space. The characters become temporal couriers, looping through nonlinear dimensions where technology manipulates both memory and identity.

Time, myth, and the politics of self-optimization

In the trilogy’s most recent chapter, Delivery Dancer’s Arc: Inverse (2024), Kim constructs an alternate world called Novaria, where lost artifacts of human culture await rediscovery. Through expansive video projections, mirrored sculptures, and sundial-like installations, she examines how modern systems of measurement erase non-Western conceptions of time. The result is a deeply immersive reflection on the cultural consequences of technological standardization.

Curated by Ruba Katrib, Director of Curatorial Affairs at MoMA PS1, the exhibition establishes Kim as one of the most visionary figures in contemporary new media art. Her works, which are both poetic and politically charged, invite viewers to navigate an ecosystem where myth, data and human experience converge.

Ayoung Kim: Delivery Dancer Codex’ will be on display at MoMA PS1 until March 16th, 2026.