- Newspaper: Yonhap News
- URL: https://www.yna.co.kr/view/AKR20201023151700005?section=search&fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR1tzAl7ut0FHlcQIJOFzDb5DVIimYHbFGfrV4m_iLFxxrZz6D7zpckak-U_aem_ZmFrZWR1bW15MTZieXRlcw
- Publication Date: 2020/10/23
- Author: Jonghoon Kang
– Featuring works by nine teams including President Moon’s son, Joon Yong Moon
(Yeongjongdo, Yonhap News) Jonghoon Kang – To experience Virtual Reality (VR) or Augmented Reality (AR), one might think special equipment is needed, but just a flashlight is enough.
In a dark space, frames of windows and doors, chairs, etc., are set up, and a few simple shapes like circles and stairs are drawn on the floor.
When the viewer shines a flashlight, sensors react, revealing virtual shadows hidden in the space according to the angle of the light.
On the walls, one can see people climbing stairs and children playing, and shining the light inside a doghouse reveals the shadow of a dog.
Sound effects are added to the shadow images, giving the viewer a feeling of solving mysteries in a secretive space.
This is the work ‘Augmented Shadow – Inside’ by artist Joon Yong Moon, son of President Moon Jae-in.The ‘2020 Paradise Art Lab Festival,’ which opened on the 23rd at Paradise City in Yeongjongdo, showcases works that use technology to realize artistic imagination.
Paradise Art Lab is a project that supports work that fuses art and technology without boundaries of genre.
The festival, under the theme ‘CONNECT,’ runs until November 1st and features works by nine teams selected this year, including Joon Yong Moon, Yang Jung-wook, Woojoo+Lim Hee-young, Lee Jeong-in Creation, Jo Young-kak, Choi Sung-rok, Tacit Group, Collective A, and Protorm.
At the exhibition, Joon Yong Moon explained, “I wanted to incorporate narratives of characters, backgrounds, and events into the shadow images,” adding, “Using shadows allowed for artistic expression and created scenes where virtual and real spaces seemed to look at each other.”
Viewers cannot see the physical forms of the moving entities around them, but can observe them only as shadows projected on the floor and walls. In the augmented reality experience system designed by the artist, viewers explore the shadows and uncover the stories within.
‘MetaPixels’ by Collective Protorm, composed of Seung-beom Kim and Hunita Kim, is an installation work that uses cameras to send messages to the pixels of digital images.
Several cameras send messages like “If it is red, become stronger, flow down, or scatter” to the pixels. The 2 million pixels in a large image receive these instructions and transform. The image changes entirely based on the messages from the multiple cameras.
Protorm commented, “As technology advances, pixels are becoming increasingly invisible,” and “By sending messages to the hidden entities, we allowed them to exist as individual actors.”
The festival can be visited for free through prior reservation on the Paradise Art Lab Festival website. Major performances and programs will also be live-streamed on the Paradise Cultural Foundation’s Instagram. After the festival, an archive exhibition related to the participating works will continue for four months.
