Digital Being: Rebirth - I (Renaissance)
17(W) x 11(H) x 5(D) ft, CRT TV Monitor, TV Mount, Pipe, Arduino, Raspberry Pi, Mac Mini, LED, and Electric Parts on Wood Panels, 2017-2020
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, an invisible and formless creature born out of a gap of a radical change called digital transformation. Some of them work interactively and some of them are randomly working based on the characteristic and the original function of the machine.
Digital Being: Rebirth a pile of digital code merges from abandoned technologies to be born into a new life. The beings think about Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? imagining the sun, planets, and the tele-stars. The spinning stars on the screen are streamed over the internet from a NFT collection located in a decentralized world like a new soul of the machine. With NFT technology each one has a unique identity, and they can float and coexist between the physical and virtual worlds. With NFT and IPFS(Interplanetary File System), they will forever live with us.
Through my artwork, Digital Being, I hope to invite you to a world beyond human-centered thinking.
Video Link: Youtube
Digital Being: Rebirth - II
12(W) x 8(D) x 9(H) ft, CRT TV Monitor, Mount, Raspberry Pi, Arduino, LED Matrix, Pipe, Chair, Speaker, Traffic Light, LED Light, U-matic Tape, Beta Tape, VHS Tape, Multi-Strip, Relay, The Clapper, Wire, and Various abandoned technology on Wood Panels, 2023
When the TVs stop working, the being become the form of digital candle.
Video Link: YouTube