HjkEg Collective
HjkEg Collective
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Korean language
HjkEg Collective is a duo collective formed on the basis of their interest in social phenomena. Over the past year, they have shared ideas of visualizing the social phenomena they witnessed in person while travelling together in Korea, Japan, and Europe. Heejoo Kim, the founder, has developed her international sense of visual art by practicing in various cultural and artistic events at home and abroad. Specifically, she focuses on the creation of and research on the convergence media art which presents creative results at the boundary between fields such as society, environment, technology, science, and music. She serves as a research artist in this project. Born in Chișinău, Republic of Moldova, Eugene Godunov is a media artist, musician and video producer based in Seoul. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Environmental Science and Engineering and studied a Master’s course at the School of Earth Sciences and Environmental Engineering, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology. He has presented ideas through media artworks. His works are centered on human emotions and communion with nature. He was selected as a residency artist at <2018 Creators in Lab> at the Asia Culture Center and presented a showcase. He serves as an audio-visual artist in this project.
<Neo-Human Scale>
There is a reference unit determined by the scale of the human body. Since these units were determined based on the human body, they were slightly different values depending on the era even though they were the same units. Then, in the face of today’s development of the media technology environment, can we propose a new unit of human measurement to reflect the relationship between people? If so, how would it be influenced by natural and social circumstances? Also, how could we decide its name and on what grounds?
<Neo-Human Scale> conducts research based on various topics such as proxemics, human scale in human history, microbial community distribution, the concept of distance in biology, and cosmology. The point of <Neo-Human Scale>, which includes videos of microbial communities, drones, Humans’ social distance, and videos of the natural environment capturing distances in space and galaxy, is to deliver the view of how social distance and the concept of its scale are evolving from simple organisms such as bacteria to highly complex organisms such as Homo sapiens. The video will be displayed on a horizontally arranged screen, allowing the viewer to feel a unique observer’s viewpoint looking down at the work from the top down with an omniscient point of view.
Single channel video, 7m 4s
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