RIP Flash

RIP Flash is a project to somewhat early commemorate the technology “Flash” which is soon to be out of technical support. Taehyeon Gwon, who studies art theory, and Iseon Park, who majored in cultural studies, put together the legacies of flash based on their respective fields, and still go out to find traces of flash that are buried in various places.

RIP Flash

Website www.ripflash.net

RIP Flash conducts research on the impact of flash, which is nearing its death, on the web culture since the 2000s. A number of amateur creators in the 2000s created the basis of web culture of the time based on the technical foundation of Flash. The flash animations and games they created literally made the web a played/playable space. Ahead of 2020 when Flash is officially supposed to be out of technical support, the RIP Flash project is not only a retrospective of Flash, but also discovers the aesthetic and political potential of the platform and the legacy that its traces left in today’s culture. In addition to this, to commemorate the planned death, the flash-focused research from the microhistory of art and culture in Korea and the opinions on the flash culture will be shared. The web page (www.ripflash.net) created in this project will be an online memorial space and a foundation for the discourse that will spread the history of flash and related research results.