Jisu Kim, Chung Nyeong Lee, Jean Ho Chu. Juried Artist
Constellations
WebXR on the Styly platform
Artist Statement
Dreaming Yongsan Park (2023)’ is a community art project that attempts to occupy and reshape the current state of ‘Yongsan Park’ into a place that reflects the voice and desires of Seoul citizens. We aimed to return the power to citizens to dream and re-think about Yongsan Park beyond its physical constraints and the government’s top-down approach to urban planning.
3D scanning can be used as a democratized method for sharing of one’s 3D models of everyday objects and environment. We identify 3D scanned objects as a ‘Digital Found Objects’, and virtual form of ‘Self-narratives’ of people within their time and place. This Digital Found Objects brings people’s everyday lives, hidden stories, and wishes of the Yongsan park. We utilize these objects to share one’s voice as a community member, allowing them to reshape and reengage the place as their own.
This 3D Virtual Website ‘Dreaming Yongsan Park’ is employed to restore the relationship between Yongsan Park and citizens. We suggest this virtual space as an activist approach where the virtual space can be a way of reshaping engagement and attachment of the real place, and also works as a place to sharing voices of the citizens. The website is open to the public, and any visitors can virtually walk around the 3D web version of ‘Yongsan Park’ and read the stories of how the citizens dream of the inaccessible place
Styly link: Dreaming Yongsan Park
About the artists
Jisu Kim is practice-based researcher of new media arts and aesthetics, project manager and director of artwork using emerging technology. Her research primarily centered on the use of 3D Scanning and virtual archives for microhistory or daily lives. She received M.A.S in Media Arts & Technology in [Sogang University], BA History of Arts with cultural Studies at [University of Leeds].
Chung Nyeong Lee is an creative coder, AR developer, and full-stack engineer, is currently pursuing a degree (B.A.S.) in Art and Technology at Sogang University, with a double majored in Computer Science and Psychology. He actively engages in cutting-edge research, harnessing AR technology to craft computational media that capture and recreate cherished inter-personal memories, potentially replacing conventional mediums(photographs and videos).
Jean Ho Chu is an artist, researcher, and an educator exploring new media aesthetics, embodied inter-action, digital cultural heritage, and museum experience design. She received Ph.D. in Digital Media from Georgia Institute of Technology, M.F.A. in Digital Arts from Pratt Institut. She is currently an assistant professor in Sogang University Art & Technology program and the director of the Next Story Group (http://nextstorygroup.org/).
Credits: Jisu Kim, Chung Nyeong Lee, Jean Ho Chu