Yunsil Heo, Hyunwoo Bang: Memoirs
Artist(s):
Title:
- Memoirs
Exhibition:
- SIGGRAPH 2011: Tracing Home in The Age of Networked Techniques
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More artworks from SIGGRAPH 2011:
Creation Year:
- 2011
Medium:
- TV tube panel, Polaroid camera
Category:
Artist Statement:
Memoirs is an interactive installation piece. It is a memoir of humanity’s struggle to invent home appliances in pursuit of happiness. The piece is composed of a brown TV tube panel with a Polaroid camera on top. Its antique look stimulates a sense of nostalgia for old-fashioned home appliances. As you come close to the piece, a custom-made Polaroid camera automatically recognizes your face and takes a picture of you, and a physically simulated photo paper falls down and hits the pile of photos inside the virtual interior of the piece. Its digital data travels halfway around the earth to a web server in a distant country. Even though film-based photography is perishing and digital cameras are penetrating everyday objects, nothing can substitute for the feeling of anticipation while waiting for a photo to develop. Like bringing film to the photo printing office, taking a card with a printed web address from a stack creates a space in which to reminisce about the good old days. As you stand in front of the piece, the line between the virtual self and the physical self blurs. With photos stacking up on the web server, participants collectively build and share a single memory through the piece. Because of its intense and antique visual imprint, even when our experience with this piece dims, our shared childhood memories of electronic home appliances will remain.
All Works by the Artist(s) in This Archive:
- Yunsil Heo
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Memoirs
[SIGGRAPH 2011] -
Cloud Pink
[SIGGRAPH 2013] -
Oasis: Tangible Visual Interface
[SIGGRAPH 2008] -
Levitate
[SIGGRAPH 2014] -
Modern Video Processor
[SIGGRAPH 2014] -
Mont
[SIGGRAPH Asia 2011] -
R
[DAC Online Exhibition 2011] - Hyunwoo Bang
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Memoirs
[SIGGRAPH 2011] -
Cloud Pink
[SIGGRAPH 2013] -
Oasis: Tangible Visual Interface
[SIGGRAPH 2008] -
Levitate
[SIGGRAPH 2014] -
Modern Video Processor
[SIGGRAPH 2014] -
Mont
[SIGGRAPH Asia 2011]