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                           Presence

                                        [ : perception, the flow of presence ]

Eng    |    Kor

1. Caption  :

 interactive media installation, 2ch audio/ projection, 2017

2. Description :

This work has set on the query of how 'presence' could be understood. It is clear that what we see and feel does not happen in the present time, rather in the past time. That is because there must be a time span between pure material perception and recognition. And, this work focuses on what is happening in the time span. For an example of magma activiation before and after eruption, formless flow of lava under ground changes over time into a formed stone after eruption on the ground. We can see the form - stone clearly, only after it has already experienced non-directional vibration and color-deviation in transition between magma and stone. The transition is always happening with full of energy in the formless flow. 
So, this work contrasts between pure material perception and recognition, and consider the formless flow of energy as 'presence'. And it is burst out as color-deviative visualization and overlayerd vibration of sound in real-time.
This work is subject-oriented and takes a platform of interactive/ audiovisual intallation with a self-made digital algorithm connected with a USB camera, and a beam projector and 2ch loud speakers. It can be installed either indoors or oudoors. Flying insects, birds, human beings or whatever can be artistic material and, all the moving creatures sensored by this work express their energy - 'presence' for this work.

3. Installation  & Video work

- This work can be installed inside a gallery, or outside on the street with mapping on the wall or building. Below, suggested an example of floor plan inside a gallery

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# Jul 19 ~ Aug 4, 2019, mythtakemuseum, Cheongpyeong, South Korea
- web link (exhibition video documentation) : https://youtu.be/l9ug1hBZnyY

2) Digital Prints

# 4~ 9 of June, 2019, [Phanism], Cyartspace Gallery, Seoul, Korea
- web link (exhibition video documentation) : https://youtu.be/PhSNEdsN8es

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# 17~ 18 of May, 2019, [Digital Graffiti 2019], Alys Beach, Florida, USA
- web link (exhibition video documentation) : https://youtu.be/fsh0LK6q4s0

# 10 ~ 16 of Aug 2018, Atelier Gustave, Paris, france
- web link (exhibition video documentation) : https://youtu.be/2muvm-CNK7A 

# 15 ~ 21 of Aug 2017, Cyartspace, Seoul

# This algorithm can be applied on any subjects in the nature in addition to human beings and living organisms. So I have made video recordings while implementing the algorithm onto people, insects, flowing water, animals, and etc. in different places of Korea and Europe since 2017.

1) Video works
- web link (in Athens, 2019) : https://youtu.be/Ae0f7qbefEI  
- web link (in Europe, 2018) : https://youtu.be/WWjuxLbf6GA 
- web link (in Korea, 2017) : https://youtu.be/1z_ufVkNmB0

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Presence_03 (470 * 640, digital print, 2017)

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Presence_12 (470 * 640, digital print, 2017)

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Presence_48 (470 * 840, digital print, 2017)

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Presence_64 (470 * 840, digital print, 2017)

# Related Documents

# Aesthetica Art Prize, 100 artist, Aesthetica Mag, UK

- web link : https://aestheticamagazine.com/profile/joo-kwan-song/

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