Visitors interact with Stepping onto the Scale, an interactive digital art installation by Taezoo Park exploring consciousness, perception, and hyperreality.

DIGITAL BEING: Scale

Size Variable, Technological Garbage, Arduino, Raspberry Pi

Digital Being: Scale investigates the transformation of obsolete technology from a dormant object into a responsive presence.

First presented at the New York Maker Faire (2013), Cornell University (2014), and the CHI (Computer-Human Interaction) Conference in Toronto (2014), the work emerged from my encounter with abandoned technologies left behind during New York’s transition from analog to digital broadcasting.

When a viewer steps onto the Scale, dormant systems awaken. Screens illuminate, signals emerge, and forgotten technological potentials become visible. The human body does not simply activate the machine; it becomes part of the condition through which a new technological presence emerges.

The work explores the relationship between body, technology, and consciousness—where mind and body converge in Monism, separate in Dualism, and expand through the possibility of Multiple Realizability.

Digital Being: Scale asks whether we are activating a machine, or witnessing a form of existence that was already latent within it.

At the CHI Conference in Toronto in 2014