김영희 – Younghui Kim (Marie)

Layers of Stillness: 연동면 미디어아트 프로젝트

Posted on February 28, 2023March 1, 2023 by absurdee

‘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’]

Wearable Hackathone, Art Center Nabi

Posted on August 26, 2014September 4, 2014 by absurdee

Wearable Hackathone at Art Center Nabi June 23-27th, 2014

Younghui Kim + Sanghwa Hong, Kyungmi Kim, Kwanu Park

As Younghui was invited to participate this 5-day Wearable Hackathone from Art Center Nabi, she has teamed up with 2 other artists and a student.

웨어러블 해카톤 드레스 IT 업 Nabi Wearable Hackathone, Dress IT up (this link is in Korean)

Below is a good article regarding the Nabi Wearable Hackathone, ‘ Dress IT up’ in English.
‘Where Fashion Meets IT: Final Presentation at Kormore.com

웨어러블 해카톤 Day 1:

brainstorming — from left to right: Sanghwa, Kwanu, Kyungmi and Younghui

First day, the team had a brainstorm session. We exchanged ideas on communication in our society. What it means and how do we communicate here. This idea naturally went on to the social drinking culture and how it is deeply related to communicate with each other. Therefore the team came up with two different ideations of wearable that expresses and communicate during social drinking environment. We listed out all the necessary materials and electronic parts and sketched interaction design. We researched different alcohol sensors and RGB LEDs and servo motors. We are to create one male jacket and woman’s top.

웨어러블 해카톤 Day 2:

2nd day was spent mostly for the material search and finding. Experimenting with various papers to used as a diffuse LED lights and expand easily with kinetic movement of parts. We tried different paper folding techniques and creating different fabric using rice paper with iron-on fabrics. No perfect solution yet.

웨어러블 해카톤 Day 3:

Here is a link for the Arirang Channel News interview on Day 3

We divided a team for two outputs. I’ve focused on femaile kinetic dress to design, sew & integrate electronics and etc. Kyungmi & Kwanu focused on the male jacket.

웨어러블 해카톤 Day 4:

We were almost there. I had a last minute vision on how to solve paper folding LED diffusion solution and how to construct the shoulder movement and sewed sensors at the collar already.

웨어러블 해카톤 Day5: Final Presentation

With overwhelming number of guests, we had presented the alcohol responsive dress + jacket to express Korean social drinking setting.

Here are photos of the result and see the project page for video and description.

10468198_10152554189783552_899873545574525446_n — 취중진담 (Metamorphosis) 2014

3D Printing & Art, curated exhibition by Savina Museum

Posted on June 16, 2014August 22, 2014 by absurdee

3D Printing & Art, curated exhibition by Savina Museum of Contemporary Art

3D프린팅과 아트 (예술가의 새로운 창작 도구), 사비나미술관

2014.5.15 – 7.6 (사비나 미술관은 안국역, 종로경찰서 건너편, 종로우체국 옆에 위치해 있습니다.)

전시정보 Exhibition Information is at http://www.savinamuseum.com/kor/newsview.action?brdgb=NN&langb=KOR&brdidx=2964

Younghui is one of the participating artists for this very first 3D Print Contemporary Art exhibition at Savina Museum of Contemporary Art. (Curatorial Director: Jaeheon Kang 강재헌) Younghui is displaying two artworks. One is the digital drawing & the other is 3D printed artwork, titled ‘First Edition of Network (2014, 100 cm x 60 cm).

For this piece, the artist had her creative process using this new technology differently – instead of drawing in hands, she drew her drawing in computer then 3D-modeled from the finished digital drawing. The digital drawing was 3D printed into the physical pieces to assemble. This digital-to-analogue process felt almost like a traditional printmaking to her as each edition is slightly different in details influenced by physical condition as well as careful technical processes to final print. The whole 3D printing process took about 3 months after the concept and the artist spent about a month to test print in various kinds of 3D printers and different settings.

With strong shadows created with these 3D printed patterns inspired from leaf vein may remind you of old narrow alleys, vein under skin, tree branches… which are all very related with network.

A part of the digital drawing of 'First Edition of Network' by Younghui Kim, 2014, Savina Museum of Contemporary Art — A part of the digital drawing of ‘First Edition of Network’ by Younghui Kim, 2014, Savina Museum of Contemporary Art

Artist Note: 본 작품은 디지털 드로잉에서 3D 물질로 프린트되고 굳어지는 과정에서 의도하거나 의도하지 않은 미세한 변화가 있을 것 이다. 그 변화도 하나의 작픔으로 포용해야 하는 거이 나와 이 작품의 관계이며 ‘네트워크’의 첫번째 에디션으로써의 미세한 Identity라고 할 수 있다. 2014년 봄

'First Edition of Network' by Younghui Kim, 2014, Savina Museum of Contemporary Art (3D Printed, 100 cm x 60 cm) — ‘First Edition of Network’ by Younghui Kim, 2014, Savina Museum of Contemporary Art (3D Printed, 100 cm x 60 cm)

관련기사: 예술가, 3D프린터를 만나니 또다른 작품 세계가, 국내 최초 3D프린팅 기술 활용한 전시에 참여한 작가 류호열, 김영희 – 진달래 기자, 머니투데이 http://news.mt.co.kr/mtview.php?no=2014061709044249124&type=1&MLA

Artist, Portrait of The Aesthetic Soul

Posted on June 14, 2014June 16, 2014 by absurdee

Exhibition, 아티스트, 그 예술적 영혼의 초상 (팰릭스가 만난 127인의 예술가)

Artist,Portrait of The Aesthetic Soul : Book Release & Exhibition at Keum Bosung Art Center

Artist, 그 예술적 영혼의 초상 특별展

한국 현대미술의 현장을 보다 금보성아트센터 2014_0317 ▶ 2014_0329

평창동 금보성 아트센터, (in the middle) ‘RUN in Trio’ by Younghui Kim

Younghui Kim in front of 'RUNNING!' , The Book by Felix Park — Younghui Kim in front of ‘RUNNING!’ , The Book by Felix Park

1891016_10152326328928552_95061247_n — Signing the book where her portrait is.

26년간 미술책의 출판만을 고집해 온 도서출판 재원에서 Felix Park의 예술가 사진집 ‘아티스트, 그 예술적 영혼의 초상 – 펠릭스가 만난 127인의 예술가’란 제목의 책이 한글과 영문으로 출간되었습니다. This book by the curator, Felix Park is both in English and Korean.

아래는 주최측의 안내글 입니다.

저희는 이번 작업에서 회화, 사진, 설치, 비디오, 조각, 퍼포먼스 등 예술의 전 분야에서 왕성한 활동을 보이는 한국의 대표 작가 분들을 한권의 책에 담을 수 있다는 것이 참으로 즐거웠습니다. 이런 기회도 쉬운 일이 아닐 것입니다. 작업 내내 이런 작가 분들을 책에만 담고 그치기에는 아쉽다는 여운이 진하게 남았습니다. 하여 이 책에 실린 작가 분들을 금보성 아트센터와 더불어 지면이 아닌, 작품으로 다시 한 번 초대하여 ‘아티스트, 그 예술적 영혼의 초상 특별전’이란 타이틀로 미술 전시회를 개최합니다. 다양한 작가가 참여하는 이번 전시는 분명 한국 현대미술의 지난 역사와 현재를 통찰할 것이고 미래를 가늠하는 작업이며, 또한 한국 현대미술의 현주소를 가장 확실하게 보여 주는 현장이 될 것입니다.

Exhibition ‘Dynamic Structure & Fluid’ at Arko Art Center

Posted on May 23, 2014December 15, 2014 by absurdee

김영희작가의 새 키네틱설치작품, ‘비늘’ @ 아르코 미술관 다이나믹스트럭쳐 엔 플루이드 Younghui Kim’s current kinetic installation art, ‘Scales‘ @ Arko Art Center – Exhibition Dynamic Structure & Fluid (Seoul March 5th – May 9th, 2014)

김영희 작가의 인터랙티브 키네틱설치 작품, '비늘' — 김영희 작가의 인터랙티브 키네틱설치 작품, ‘비늘’ 아르코미술관 2014 (호~~ 하고 입김을 불면 비늘들이 살짝 열렸다가 닫힌다.)

Younghui has participated math + science inspired art exhibition titled ‘Dynamic Structure & Fluid’ with her recent kinetic installation art piece, ‘Scales (200 cm x 200 cm x 40 cm)’ at the prestigous art museum in Seoul, Arko Art Center. This exhibition has seven art installations in both floors and the artists try to express scientific learning into art. ‘Scales’ is an interactive installation that was inspired by pinecone scales and fibonacci’s numbers. These few hundreds scales are made of three different wood veneers that are 0.7 mm thin and cut into a square then hand folded. When a viewer blows his/her breath into the pole, the scales opens up kinetically. This project is a part of her ongoing projects inspired by pinecone scales. She plans to incorporate into different installation and wearables using different input data.

김영희 작가는 과학과 예술을 연계하여 기획전시된 ‘다이나믹 스트럭쳐 앤 플루이드’ 에 인터랙티브 키네틱 설치작품 ‘비늘’로 약 두달 그리고 열흘간 참여하였다. (물리적으로 움직이는 키네틱 설치물을 두달이상 이상없이 전시할 수 있도록 하는 것은 쉽지않은 일이었지만 다행히 별무리없이 진행되었다.) ‘비늘’은 약 2미터 넓이에 2미터 높이의 설치물이며 자작나무 등을 포함한 세종류의 0.7 밀리미터로 얇은 두께의 나무를 종이에 붙여서 잘라 접은 약 240개의 비늘들이 입김을 불어넣을 때 마다 살짝 열리는 작품이다. 이 작품은 앞으로도 계속 여러 버전으로 진행될 작품의 한 버전이다. 나무의 냄새와 움직이는 소리, 수백개의 선의 움직이는 그림자 등이로 이 설치작품은 자연의 비밀에 대해 이야기를 하려고 하고 있다.

Here is the related article links below (in Korean):

http://the3rdculture.org/wp/?page_id=257 조선일보
http://news.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2014/03/11/2014031100001.html 동아일보
http://news.donga.com/3/all/20140318/61794925/1 CNB저널
http://weekly.cnbnews.com/news/article.html?no=113048 블로그들
http://blog.naver.com/chemnote?Redirect=Log&logNo=80209585141
http://blog.naver.com/b01de?Redirect=Log&logNo=50191273836
http://venice87.blog.me/120209047192

Exhibition, [ ACROSS ] at HOMA

Posted on July 15, 2013June 29, 2014 by absurdee

Media Art Group Exhibition, [ ACROSS ]

2013.July 5th – July 21st, at HOMA (Hongik University Museum of Modern Art)

Younghui Kim is having a group exhibition with 4 other artists(Romy Achituv, Dan Mikesell, Dongsoo Suh, Jaemin Lee) who are also her colleagues at the WCU Digital Media Public Art Research Lab.

She is displaying her current three art works, ‘RUNNING! 달려라 영희!’ ‘A Moment 순간’ ‘Body Graffiti in Trio.’

RUNNING! 달려라 영희, EL드로잉 설치, 2013 — RUNNING! 달려라 영희, EL Drawing Installation by Younghui Kim, 2013

RUNNING! 125 x 147 x 65 cm, EL sheets, electronics

A Characterized figure that looks like a common running icon on the exit and entrance signs in cities are drawn using thin EL (Electroluminescent) sheets. This electronic drawing is installed where two sides of walls and a celling meet. Depending on the location of the visitor, it will look distorted or right. When it is dark, the running girl icon is reflected all around, running toward all directions.

A moment 순간 by Younghui Kim in collaboration with Dan Mikesell (motor,) 2013

A MOMEMENT 순간 150 x 155 x 250 cm, white birch wood, mdf, motors, micro-controller, electronics

How long does a moment appear to you? ‘A Moment’ is a kinetic display using a POV(Persistence of Vision) display and it swings like a pendulum while displaying an ephemeral message.

관련기사 – article:

http://blog.naver.com/PostView.nhn?blogId=venice87&logNo=120193661739

Solo Exhibition [ RUNNING ] 2013.6.15-6.29

Posted on June 17, 2013May 23, 2014 by absurdee

Younghui is having a media art solo exhibition following two weeks at Gallery White Birch. (갤러리 자작나무, 사간점)

RUNNING -Demystifying Wearable Media Art
Solo Exhibition of Younghui Kim
2013.6.15 ~ 6.29

오프닝 리셉션 2013.6.15 (Sat) 5 pm
자작나무 갤러리
http://www.galleryjjnamu.com/main.asp

Exhibition Abstract:

‘RUNNING’

We are “RUNNING” computer software.
We are “RUNNING” projects.
We are “RUNNING” businesses.
We are “RUNNING” media art or “RUNNING” wearable performances.

We are not physically running sometimes but, we are running a lot. Actually, we run everyday. Are we looking for an exit? or Entrance? Are we running for the new beginning? the new end? There are more times when we are not sure why we are running but, we can see ourselves runnings reflected in every corners of the city.

‘RUNNING’

컴퓨터 소프트웨어 프로그램을 “RUNNING”한다.
프로젝트를 “RUNNING” 한다.
사업을 “RUNNING”한다.
미디어아트작품들을 “RUNNING” 한다.
웨어러블퍼포먼스를 “RUNNING” 한다.
실제 몸으로 달리지는 않지만 우리는 많은 것을 “RUNNING” 하고있다.

이렇게 우리는 매일 달린다. 출구를 찾아서? 입구를 찾아서? 새로운 시작과 끝을 향해? 우리는 무엇을 향해 그렇게 달리고 있는지 알 수없는 경우가 더 많지만 우리가 달리는 모습이 도시 이곳 저곳에서 반영되고 있는 것을 쉽게 찾아볼 수 있다.
Demystifying Wearable Media Art

Younghui Kim (김영희)는 뉴욕에서 90년대 중반에 인터랙티브미디어영상작업을 시작하였으며, 지난 10년간 웨어러블을 미디어플랫폼으로 작품활동을 해왔다. 그의 작품들은 예술과 기술이 혼합되어 여러 형태로 우리에게 다가온다. 그러하기에 그의 미디어아트 창작물은 여행처럼 긴 작업과정을 거쳐 완성된다. 먼 여정의 도착지를 가기 위해서 여러 개의 작은 마을을 거치듯이 작가가 하나의 작품을 완성하기까지 여러 버전의 과정을 거친다. 본 전시에서 작가는 대중이 쉽게 알 수없는 미디어작품의 창작과정을 해체하여 하나 하나씩 작품으로 선보인다. 웨어러블 미디어 아트작품들은 영상으로 스크린에 프로젝션된다.