InPROCESS is a new initiative of MediaNoche offering previously exhibiting artists the opportunity to showcase technology-based extensions to past exhibited work.
PEOPLE COLORS
Ji Sun Lee repurposes the technology she developed for an earlier show at MediaNoche, creating an app that allows users to generate their own color-coded images. As an adjunct to her previous exhibition, PEOPLE COLORS deconstructs QUOTIDIAN and serves as a self-reflective commentary on the artist’s process.
Two projections offer a “before and after” look at the work in different stages of development: Photographs of the artist, her family and friends are compiled into sequences that are highly personal chronologies, then codified into blocks of color. Similarly, a video wall displays images of the artist’s mother in interlacing sequences of photographs and code that track the passage of time.
There is deception in the simplicity and accessibility of the work. The photographs are mundane yet overwhelming by their sheer number. The visual overload is resolved in the code, the extracting of color data and its reconfiguration into an illusive art form that exceeds facile correspondences. As Lee has stated: “Recollecting and reconstituting them as visual code creates a meta-level of remembrance that is similar to information graphics but different in representing a micro view of personal data that leads to a macro view of an individual’s life.” In this case, the artist’s life.
Artist Bio
New media artist and interactive designer Ji Sun Lee studied Industrial Design at Sookmyung Women’s University and Interactive Telecommunications at New York University. She has worked for major technology companies in Korea as an engineer and IT consultant. Lee holds a Ph.D. in Visual Communication Design from Seoul National University and is working on projects of image visualization using Processing and other physical computing software. Ji Sun Lee is a professor in the Department of Visual Communication Design at Sookmyung Women’s University.
About MediaNoche
MediaNoche is the place where art, technology and community converge. We offer artists working in new media exhibition space and residencies in order to provoke a dialogue that blurs all lines of marginality and alterity. Unique among art and technology groups, MediaNoche is directly linked to the oldest Latino community of New York City, Spanish Harlem, and has showcased a roster of local and international new media artists.
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