Youn Hee Park

Where we belong

by Youn Hee Park, on going project, 4 channel video installation

The digital world is not only a virtual space created by the Internet, but also the materials needed to enter the virtual world. This project challenges the idea that the Internet is immaterial by examining the physical reality of digital infrastructure, while simultaneously questioning how the extraction of materials and labor from global communications industries reflects colonial histories. What responsibility do we have to consider these factors when using technology today?

The aim of the project is to transform the distortion and expansion of space and time caused by the current digital society into a completely new space-dimensional algorithm with diverse cultural and political perspectives. 4 channel video materials of living, urban and abandoned spaces transformed into two-dimensional parallel lines can be calculated a actual space size based on the duration of the video, and it captured the spatial perspective of present and past, a time travel from the modernism to the digitalism. In the process of reimagining of the spaces, the meaning of the original spatial function is completely changed and de-spatialized. Immersive audiovisual expands the spatial political perspective such as current global politics related to digital colonialism, the geographic location through a combination of fictional dream stories.

Further more, this project brings us to these questions: Can the digital spaces we inhabit today ever evoke the same emotional or cultural significance as the modernist structures that once defined cities? What role does the rapid transformation of urban environments—both physical and virtual—play in our collective memory of the past and our vision of the future?

https://vimeo.com/864089896 ( password : belong2024 )

The minimally transformed spatial lines continue to follow the parallel line and the horizon of the endless line continues, filling the exhibition space. The sound produced by the artificial voice echoes into the immersive horizon space, that follows questions about data sovereignty in the context of digital colonialism after and before the digital revolution.