SEOUL.- Hyundai Card announced it will present American media artist Peggy Weil’s work ‘Core Memory’ at the Hyundai Card MoMA Digital Wall located on the first floor of its headquarters in Seoul. ‘Core Memory’ brings together, for the first time, ‘88 Cores’ and ‘18 Cores’, two of Peggy Weil’s visualizations of Earth’s climatic histories. A pioneer of digital media, Weil has recently turned her attention to what she calls Extended Landscapes: portraits of the invisible layers “beneath our feet, above our heads, and back in time.” She views the planet as a recording device, expressing how climate change and geological events are inscribed into polar ice sheets and sedimentary strata.

‘88 Cores’ descends approximately 3.2 km into Greenland’s ice sheet, representing approximately 110,000 years of accumulated time. It is composed of digitized, blue-toned images of 88 ice cores collected during the Greenland Ice Core Project (1989-1993). Unlike tree rings, which grow concentrically, ice preserves time vertically. Each annual layer of snow compacted into ice carries bubbles of ancient air and gases.

In contrast, ‘18 Cores’ Weil shifts from polar cold to geothermal heat, assembling images of rock cores extracted from California’s Salton Sea between 1985 and 1986. The six vertical strands of cores unveil a subterranean landscape of shales, siltstones, and sandstones dating to the Pleistocene era.

Based in Los Angeles, Peggy Weil has explored the marks that environmental and societal changes leave on landscapes using data visualization, virtual reality (VR), and immersive media. Her “Extended Landscapes” series, which visualizes invisible spaces and layers, is among her most recognized works.

“The pace of climate change is too slow to apprehend, and its substances—gases like methane and CO2—are invisible,” the artist observes. Through these vertical scrolls, Weil makes the physical evidence of environmental shifts perceptible and undeniable.
Since establishing a partnership with MoMA in 2006, Hyundai Card has joined forces with MoMA on a range of experimental exhibitions and projects. In 2019, Hyundai Card became an exclusive partner of 'The Hyundai Card Performance Series', offering a key platform for new art forms within the Museum’s Marie-Josée and Henry Kravis Studio, a space dedicated to performance art. The Hyundai Card Digital Wall at MoMA, established in 2022, showcases innovative works by contemporary artists working at the forefront of digital art and technology. A twin Digital Wall was installed in Seoul in 2025 in the lobby of Hyundai Card’s headquarters and is open for public viewing. Utilizing digital art and cutting-edge technology, the Hyundai Card MoMA Digital Wall introduces innovative works by artists, culturally connecting the two cities of New York and Seoul and providing visitors with the opportunity to appreciate world-class media art. Previously, the Hyundai Card MoMA Digital Wall has offered high-quality digital art from internationally acclaimed creators such as Dutch visual artist Rafaël Rozendaal and American AI artist Sasha Stiles.

A Hyundai Card representative said, “Core Memory allows viewers to follow the screen vertically downward and visually examine the physical traces of Earth’s time and environmental change. We expect that visitors will directly experience the deep temporal and physical imprints of Earth’s environment through the artist’s work.”
“Core Memory” will be displayed at both the Hyundai Card MoMA Digital Wall and MoMA in New York through this fall.