This article was written in 2020.12.10 and published at AITimes.com. After years, this article has been archived to this link so I’m sharing now. It is written for AITimes.com and in Korean.
[AI로 만드는 컬쳐 7] 데이터 편견, 데이터 아트로 승화하다.
2020년 겨울 AI타임즈에 기고한 글이 다시 아카이브되어 링크를 기록하고자 글을 올린다. – 김영희
“데이터 시대 본질적 문제 편향성, 예술로 승화하다
데이터는 단순히 분석하고 통계를 내어 정보로 전환하고 지표를 그리는 것이 아니다. 필자는 데이터를 많은 이야기들이 숨겨져 있는 예술적 소재이며 영감으로 본다. 데이터가 가진 가치와 속성, 사회적 이슈까지 예술적인 영감이고 다이나믹한 소재이며 다양한 주제가 될 수 있다.”
Opening sequence by Subin Kim, Min Young Kim, Junmin Park, Sarah Yoon (School of Design Convergence) at Hongik Fashion Week BFA fashion show runway, Nov 3 2023, All RIghts reversed to the aritists © 2023
2023년은 학부보직과 맞물려 여러 미디어아트 프로젝트로 분주한 한 해였다. 이제야 포스팅을 하지만, 뒤돌아 보니 보람되기도 하다. 홍익대학교 대학혁신사업 특성화학과 간에 공통적인 특성화 분야인 디자인분야에 대해서 각 학과가 독립적으로 프로그램을 운영하고 있으나 특성화학과 간 디자인분야에서 시너지 효과를 창출할 수 있는 융합 및 협업 프로젝트로 홍익패션위크를 시행함으로써 차별화된 본교의 디자인 특성화 경쟁력을 확보하고자하였다. 이렇게 특성화학과 간 디자인분야에서 시너지 효과를 창출하는 경험을 가진 참여학생들은 섬유패션디자인학과와 미디어아트 프로젝트 협업을 통하여 디자인컨버전스학부의 커리큘럼 관련 프로젝트를 실제 미디어 영상 런웨이 무대로 설치하여 빅스크린에 프로젝션맵핑하여 패션쇼와 공연무대와 함께 준비하면서 실무에서 배울 수 있는 값진 경험을 가질 수 있다고 보았다.
물론 여름방학을 시작으로 넉달 간 4팀의 학생들을 지도하고 리허설하고, 기술적인 기획을 담당하는 것은 많은 에너지가 소요되는 일이었지만, 성공적으로 이벤트를 끝내고 나니, 모두에게 값진 경험이지 않았나 싶다. 특히 기존 업체의 잘못 측정된 무대 사이즈임에도 불구하고 하루만에 거대한 스크린벽과 빔프로젝터 4대와 소프트웨어 컨트롤룸을 뚝딱 설치해내신 에이플래넷의 박대표님의 도움없이는 힘든 무대였을 거 같다.
The year 2023 has been a busy year for me due to several art projects. Among them, art directing my students (9 students, 4 teams from School of Design Convergence) collaborating for the fashion show runway media art projection. There are 4 group of students from School of Design Convergence, Dept of Textile & Fashion Design, School of Performing Art, and School of Advertising and Promotion at Hongik University, planning, and creating an impactful day event since June.
Sound Generative Visuals projection on the banner textile by Sarah Yoon during live music performance rehearsal (School of Design Convergence) at Hongik Fashion Week BFA fashion show runway, Nov 3 2023, All RIghts reversed to the aritists © 2023
D day was Nov 3rd, 2023 and the event was held at the main Gym at Hongik University, Seoul Campus. Our media art team worked on constructing the screen walls & media banners, and creating media art for both MFA and BFA fashion shows.
The theme is ‘Peace is Blue’ so, for the MFA fashion show opening, my students created AI-driven moving images using prompts based on the keywords that MFA students provided. (Both 10 meters long fabric banner screen and for 17 meters wide 6 meters high main stage screens. There was a live music performance by students from the School of Performing Art and we created a sound generated visuals for their performance as well as cat walk.
Fashion BFA graduates’ Interview shot & edited by Eungyul Park, and Subin Kim, School of Design Convergence, Hongik U. 2023
For the opening of BFA fashion show, we created an opening movie that contains what BFA students think of ‘peace’ in their own languages. Also, their words are on the banner projection screen.
It was a full four months production and I had to give up my summer break but, it was worth it.
Below is the opening art performance video captured casually.
AI-driven (partially) opening animation with the prompts based on keywords that fashion designers wrote about the theme, ‘Peace’. by Jumin Park, Sara Yoon, Min Young Kim – directed by Younghui Kim, School of Design Convergence, Hongik University. All RIghts reversed to the aritists © 2023
2023 SEJONG MEDIA ART CONTEST RE [NOVATION]: 버려지고 낡은 것들의 재탄생
세종창조경제혁신센터 지역혁신팀 / 문화공작소 기획, 운영 , 멘토링: 미디어아트-김영희, 기술-APK
Starting August, I started my mentorship on the finalists for the 2023 Sejong Media Art Contest. Four teams (Open Source Lab, Prizm, 남매말싸미, 다른) are the finalist and I have reviewed and advised them following two month. On October 20th, the media art projection mapping exhibition opened for the community near Steel ma Spring near Jochiwon station.
The moving images are rear-projected on three large windows from indoor of the building. 3M screen sheets were working pretty well.
The short videos are below. (will be posted soon)
‘정적깊이’ (김영희 2022)
‘Layers of Stillness’ by Younghui Kim 2022
The artwork, ‘Layers of Stillness’ is a real-time data-driven artwork that computationally captures a transforming scene of cozy Yeondong-myeon (Sejong City) as digital images. The images taken at different moments are superimposed on the aligned hanging screens in the exhibition space. This installation invites you to appreciate what these overlapped scenes of different moments reveal about the neighborhood.
What could be the subtle changes of this peaceful place when we see through the series of stillness made of light and time?
Through the previous artwork, ‘Bridge Crossing Series (2020-2021)’, the artist collected images of different moments in the same place as photographic data to seek unexpected visual elements. Unlike this previous series, the artist computationally captures the photographic images of the Yeondong-meon and projects from two different directions – with 2 HD projector – on the layers of the aligned, see-through screens. This experimental art piece repeats the revealing and disappearing of the subtle visual elements when the image of the past overlaps with the image of the present moment. This is an artistic process of seeking ‘visual outliers’ in the images of the historical neighborhood of Yeondong-meon connected in times and stillness.
This artwork is commissioned for the Yeondong-myeon culture proejct by PLQ Partners
‘정적깊이‘ – 김영희 2022
실시간 카메라 데이터로 생성되는 미디어설치 작품, 세종시 연동면 커뮤니티센터 2F
본 작품은 세종시 연동 면과 같이 오랜 역사를 지닌 고즈넉한 장소에서의 시간적 흐름과 그 속에서 드러나는 크고 작은 섬세한 변화를 겹겹의 스크린에 투영하여 하나의 디지털 이미지로 중첩하여 관객이 다시 마주할 수 있도록 연출된 장소 특정 미디어설치물이다. 같은 장소 다른 순간의 모습을 정적인 빛의 이미지로 서로 마주보고, 중첩되면서 이 조용하고 평화로운 장소에서 우리가 미처 생각지 못했던 변화는 무엇일까. 세종시 연동면은 한국 근대작가이신 장욱진 생가를 품은 작은 동네이다. 미디어설치와 함께 들리는 사운드는 연동면에서 직접 수집된 소리모음으로 실내공간을 걸으면서 연동면을 오롯히 느낄 수 있다.
This media installation with lively captured photographic scene of the village is curated by Minhee Kim (StarInArt) and was planned by PQL Partners & many helps from the_3rd_blank, StarinArt, RedOnion.
The exhibition title is {Siyeonhada – meaning, ‘connecting time and space’]
Younghui Kim expressed ‘Spring’ in 1 min 30 sec, computer generated motion graphic, projection mapped on the facade of the Busan Cinema Center, in December 2022 – as a part of the media facade project, <Four Seasons of Mirage> This project will be displayed in public until December 2023. Busan Cinema Center is a landmark of Busan for the renoun BIFF Busan International Film Festival.
<Four Seasons of Mirage> – ‘Spring’ by Younghui Kim, 2022 Runtime: 1 min 30 sec
<Four Seasons of Mirage> – ‘Spring’ by Younghui Kim, 2022 Runtime: 1 min 30 sec
This facade media projection mapping art project, is composed of four seasons, directed by Kyoungmi Kim, NMARA, sound by Jinuk Jo and Yemin Oh. Younghui expresses a season of ‘spring’ as after a long darkness of winter, a small light blooming into the branches of light, then transforms to the spring energy exploding into a flower.
작가노트: 깊은 겨울의 어둠을 뚫고 피어나는 봄의 에너지를 추상적으로 표현해 보았다. 봄의 기운은 어둠 속 한줄기 빛의 가지로 뻗어 나와 그 생명력이 꽃의 수술로 뿜어져 나와 어느 순간 주위를 환하게 밝히며 우리에게 따스한 희망을 상기시킨다. <봄, 김영희 2022>
기획 연출 | 김경미
영상 | 봄-김영희, 여름-이주헌, 가을- 조수진, 겨울-신규빈
인트로 브릿지 엔딩 영상 | 서명진
작곡| 조진옥, 오예민
영상아카이빙| 최경준
코디네이터 | 오은숙
I am sharing a making film for the projection mapping project, <Four Seasons of the Mirage>. I don’t appear in this making film due to my installation date overlapping for another exhibition but, it was 5 months long project collaborating with other professionals with the very paraticular facade of the Busan Cinema Center building. It was challenging as the wall is very dark, therefore absorb projection lights & the shape is not a pecfect squre. Still, the wall is significantly large and we managed to calibrate the gamma of the artworks!
It was great to participate in Women in Computer Graphic Sesseion at SIGGRAPH ASIA 2022. Strong talented colleagues inspire me! Thank you, Hyeyeon!
Gwanghwasoo Data Visualization Project by RedOnion (Younghui Kim, Sam An) & technical support by Yuno Choi
During later 2021, as RedOnion, I was asked to provide a conceptual artwork prototyped for the Gwanghwasoo project that are composed of AR & Dive online. AR appears on the sculpture installed near Gwanghwamun area in Seoul. Each particle is formed with a data set and they are catagorized into 7 emotions processed by AI application provided by another team. The data sources are the social media posts with the hashtag. Branches are formed with the data also, they are directional and grows longer in different direction. Although the real-time data driven AR concept was not finally selected by the client but, data visualization & particle movement is applied to Gwanghwasoo dive online. Due to web browser & three.js capability, designs are applied a bit differently in the final website, but the dive site works with live data sets and the user can interact with each particle and navigate through the site.
In this project defining data visualization rules was as crucial as finalizing data mapping for the visuals. At the same time, using the most efficient software tools for different media platforms such as AR, VR, and website.
The project link: https://gwanghwasu.gwanghwasidae.kr/dive
Younghui Kim (Marie) 