K-pop influence has affected current digital art as well as popular culture and the media. Renowned new media artist LuYang (1984- ) is delving into the global appeal of K-Pop in his most recent music video, Doku: Mind Matrix (2022). The artist has always had a deep connection to pop culture, and he has incorporated pop music, anime, manga, and video game aesthetics into his works of art. With the aid of cutting-edge technologies, LuYang has developed a new digital representation of himself called Doku in recent years. Doku's moves are a fusion of modern and traditional dances. In Doku:Mind Matrix LuYang's incorporates the visual and choreographic language of K-Pop to animate the movement of his avatar. In actuality, Doku does not appear as a reimagining of the six realms of reincarnation from Buddhism, as is common in other films and performances, but rather as a K-pop band dressed in suits and sophisticated haircuts. They are executing a complicated choreography in a variety of imaginative locations such as a cathedral, a laboratory, and even outer space. This paper will be an opportunity to focus on several important topics by discussing this music video: first, the artist's interaction with contemporary forms of popular culture including K-pop. Second, the blurring or, more accurately, the erasure of differences between popular culture and contemporary art, and finally, the influence of K-Pop choreographic language on digital art and on the avatars performing style. 

Keywords: dance; K-pop; choreography; avatar; transnational;

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