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■ Data Distorted(Series #2) Introduction
Han, Yoon Chung(Artist) × Kim, Seong-Lyun(Scientist)
Plastic Landscape-The Reversible World
2023, Multi-channel video, color, two-channel sound, 12’15”
3D animation _ Hung-Hsuan Tsai
Sound design _ Soo Jung Kwak
Plastic Landscape-The Reversible World is an interactive 3D animation installation and projection piece that applies reverse neural network algorithms as opposed to the input/output directionality as found in typical digital systems. In doing so, the piece raises awareness about microplastics, which are a cause of environmental issues in the present day.
Han harnesses the potential of inverse style transfers by Kim's research team and uses images of nature in plastic as a basis, thus producing a landscape filled with newly refined 3D plastic objects. In the imagination that effloresces in the reversible world of the distorted digital, a space that is reformed by the new reverse neural network algorithm, the four worlds of the plastic landscape combine with rich, dense sound effects to intensify a sense of immersion. The piece is an extension of Han’s work over the past years, of art based on climate change data.
The piece brings audiences face to face with the reality of climate change, while at the same time foreboding a future that has been destroyed by microplastics; the piece will inspire audiences to take action of their own accord. The piece has experimented with the so called digital silence approach by intentionally allowing errors, erasing data, and reducing complexity in the process of applying the neural network algorithms. Much like the shadows that emerge behind objects in the sunlight, the piece also applies the engineering concept of duality to AI, thus manifesting that process of discovering a reversible world within the piece itself.
■ About
Through the XR Lab, the Ulsan Art Museum has contemplated the role of a laboratory in which researchers of novel technologies share knowledge and insights and engage in creative art experiments. In the present day, diverse engineering technologies, including AI, are expanding into the domain of artistic creation, and the museum is therefore considering the possibility of a new, interdisciplinary genre of art that does not simply utilize engineering technologies as methods of art creation.
For its first project, the Ulsan Art Museum is collaborating with Digital Silence team to hold Data Distorted. Digital Silence comprises new media artists, Yonsei University engineers, and art theorists. A collaborative project between art and engineering experts, the group has held seminars since 2020. The Ulsan Art Museum XR Lab x Digital Silence collaborative exhibition comprises expanded lumino kinetics/animated installations/site-specific immersive installation work that utilize lensless cameras/reverse neural network algorithm/attention mechanisms. From March to August, the XR Lab will showcase the series of installation the above one by one. From the Machine, created by Bae, Jaehyuck (teamVOID) and Lee, Seung Ah, apply visual noise, which has generally been considered to be interference in the system, to reveal the expanded interpretive process of machines. Han, Yoon Chung and Kim, Seong-Lyun’s Plastic Landscape-The Reversible World harnesses reverse neural network algorithm to promote climate awareness through microplastic landscapes. Ji, Haru (Artificial Nature) and Chae, Chan-Byoung’s Entanglement uses attention mechanisms based on fungal neural networks to develop an artificial ecosystem that represents the simultaneous, entwining relationship formations that occur in nature. Data Distorted represents the engineering potentials of Digital Silence, where dropping, mutations, and errors that occur in the process of mainpulating algorithm can lead to unexpected but optimal results. This suggests that such result happening in distorted digital side is rather convergent (like a Mobius strip), than binary division such as positive vs. negative functions and perfection vs. imperfection.
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