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Kwon kyunghwan

Korea
Long-term

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Oracle

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Shall W..

Funny g..

Jayeon Kwon

Korea
Long-term

SOMA in..

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Kim Si won

Korea
Long-term

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Na, Hyun

Korea
Long-term

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Missing..

Witness

Lee, Soyung

Korea
Short-term

mermaid..

yellow

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the gum..

Dreamer..

The Mis..

Youngho Lee

Korea
Short-term

Flip Fl..

Kings o..

Korea
Long-term

The Hol..

The tow..

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The Bro..

the nat..

Lee Jeong Hoo

Korea
Long-term

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Undefin..

Twinkle..

Lee Zune

Korea
Long-term

Etude f..

A Bottl..

A Bottle of Weather (2009 Year)

The sense of taste is an important sense in ordinary life but it has been ignored in media art. In the area of art, the word, ‘taste’ has been usually mentioned to appreciate art pieces and express artistic styles, but we never ‘literally’ tasted artworks with our mouth. This artwork is the author’s first step to ‘taste’ art in synesthetic ways. It is also the strong will that a visual artist attempts to taste image and sound even though he cannot literally taste it by mouth. For this, the author suggests the mixology of cocktail and the context of cocktail bar as a metaphoric methodology of mixing images and sounds, which enable people to taste image and sound rather than see and hear them. First, the author presents a set of tangible user interfaces with a network connection to blend image and sound: bottle, table, and dish interface.

Conceptually, a bottle has been an object that contains something. The bottle stores, processes, contents, and extracts something necessary from contents. It is a void media that can store and process everything. Here, according to its functions and contents, the bottle can be something different from the original bottle. Based on the interpretation of the bottle, the author tries to make the bottle contain weather. Originally, weather is given us and we cannot choose and change it. The weather influences our ordinary life and we sometimes express our feelings through weather. We may live with making our own weather in our mind regardless of actual weather outside. Humans live in the border of actual weather (real world) and imaginary weather (virtual world). Thus, weather becomes a metaphor for humans’ emotions in our mixed reality. In the artwork, we can make an experiment on the bottle as a being that mixes weather (metaphor for feelings) and expresses it.

To embody this idea, the author borrows the method of mixing weather from the mixology of cocktail and provides audience with a cocktail bar surrounding as an exhibition space. This atmosphere affords audience the following interaction flow: (Order) ? Select ? Mix ? Pour ? Taste ? Keep. In the flow, the bottle interface is an interactive liquidizer enabling users to choose and blend weather. With the bottle, the users can choose images and sounds of weather on the table interface to insert them into the bottle. By shaking it, audience can blend them in real-time like mixing cocktails. This act of mixing creates imaginary weather, and it becomes an audio-visual performance by audience. By pouring the mixed weather into a dish beside the table, audience can produce virtual weather, an audio-visual mixture. Simultaneously it appears on a front screen as a media collage, and participants taste their own weather as a mixture of image and sound. Finally, the result weather is automatically stored and displayed on a wall screen as the keeping procedure, thereby tasting other audience’s weather.
컴퓨터, 빔프로젝터, 테이블탑인터페이스, 바틀인터페이스, 접시인터페이스, 사운드시스템 등
variable size cm

Tree

Lee, Hyo Jin

Korea
Short-term

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