Siheon Cha

Siheon Cha’s work begins with exploring solutions to the “random call” and “reproducibility” of three-dimensional shapes. Random call is a matter of spatial and temporal conditions for calling up a three-dimensional shape, and reproducibility is a matter of whether it can be literally returned. Siheon Cha finds an answer to this in the technology of everyday life. Recently, with the advancement of technology such as IoT, an access to content through everyday devices (medium) has become extensive. While this is an expansion of the use by adding new technology to existing devices, on the contrary, Siheon Cha investigates to discover some potential already inherent in household devices. In this project, Siheon Cha actively utilizes and combines technology to research a device that can call out a specific shape in an arbitrary time and space.

A Research on the Three-Dimensional Recall for Collection (2019)

<Sand Castle Equipment> / <Soap Bubble Exhaust Device>

Siheon Cha set the following 11 conditions before starting the project.

1. available anytime

2. affordable to use

3. touchable

4. not that heavy

5. renewable

6. no maintenance

7. without main body

8. not a tool

9. not a printer (printing device) 

10. removable/demountable

11. clear

<Sand Castle Equipment> and <Soap Bubble Exhaust Device> was produced based on the 11 conditions above. <Sand Castle Equipment> is a device that creates the shape of a sand castle from dust or soil collected from the street and <Soap Bubble Exhaust Device> is a device that ejects soap bubbles using gases emitted from an exhaust port. Siheon Cha’s research is about discovering the possibility of producing three-dimensional shapes inherent in technology in daily life. This is to highlight that we are surrounded by many technologies and at the same time to remind us that the ubiquitous space has already arrived.