Digital Being: Rebirth - I is on display at 3 World Trade Center
When I came to New York City in 2008, it was a year before the broadcast transmission system went digital. Since then, I have observed lots of abandoned technologies, especially analogue TVs which were expensive and the icon of new technology in the period of Nam June Paik, on the street. As an artist, I not only wanted to give them new life, as a form of art, but I also wanted to talk about the direction of technological development, its sustainability, and the undiscovered possibility through the series of my artwork, Digital Being.
“Digital Being” is an invisible and formless creature born out of abandoned technology. Some of them work interactively and some of them are randomly working based on the characteristic and the original function of the machine. Like a new soul of the machine.
Through my artwork, Digital Being, I hope to invite you to a world beyond human-centered thinking.