Wet Media

Alex May took part in Wet Media on 6 November 2015 at Sogang University in Seoul, contributing to a one-day conference framed around the technological climates of emerging media and the ways ideas, systems, and forms of influence spread across cultures. The programme placed May alongside artists and researchers including Anna Dumitriu, boredomresearch, Wayne de Fremery, Sonia Cillari, Robert Jarrett, and Pascale Barret.

Although the surviving source material is brief, the event context is clear. Wet Media positioned artistic practice within wider discussions about transmission, contamination, and technological change, using the conference format to bring together different approaches to digital culture. In that setting, May’s contribution sat within an international conversation about how media systems shape perception, knowledge, and exchange.

For May, the event fits a wider practice concerned with what technological systems carry, preserve, and transform. Even where only limited documentation remains, the conference poster and legacy post make clear that this was part of a broader period of international speaking activity in which digital art was being discussed not just as a medium, but as a way of thinking through contemporary technical culture.