《Fabricated Containers 01 Project》

Jungwon Yoon sees this era as “an era in which various non-human scales are adapted to human scales,” rather than “an era in which the human scale expands and diversifies.” It is to see humans connected to the virtual world from the non-humans’ point of view, prior to looking at the expanded virtual world from the humans’ point of view. In order to develop this discussion, Jungwon Yoon executed two-way research on the question “How non-human scale is produced by human scale?” One is to meet other species that actually exist in various new media and the other is to meet by a performance conceived from a ritual for the deceased who no longer exists in the world. This is to point out that the future humankind’s approach to the new media would be similar to our approach to soil microorganisms or ancestral ghosts, or on the contrary, we would be in their position, and through this way, to predict the circumstance the future humankind would be in. This project consists of 4 works. The projection video in front of the installation space is composed of real-time scanning video, sign language subtitles and French narration. The French narration in the video reads information about the unknown creature in the scanning video and the part about the tightrope walker from the Thus Spake Zarathustra by Nietzsche. The sign language subtitles only play the role of sign and its being is erased. It shows that once one’s movement is symbolized, it instantly becomes something else. Another installation on the other side controls the human puppet in the virtual space based on the movement data of soil microorganisms. Visitors experience the perspective of the human puppet through the VR head-mounted display. 

<Springtail Puppet Show>

“인간은 인간이 아닌 어떤 것에 대해 분리하고, 관리하려고 한다. 인간이 아닌 생물들은 선반으로 쌓아 올려진다. 이렇게 ‘쌓는다’는 것은 경제성, 가시성, 생산성 등의 목적으로 인간이 효율적으로 대상을 관리하려고 하는 행위에서 비롯된다. 쌓아 올려진 생명에서 생산되는 정보와 영상들은, 마치 서버실에서 송출되는 서비스들처럼, 유기물에서 무기물로 완전히 다른 성질의 것이 되어 인터넷망을 타고 흘러간다. 유통된 개별 데이터는 실제와는 아무런 관련이 없어지고, 아무런 책임을 지지 않는다.”

<토양생물을 위한 VR-프로토타입 VR- Prototype for Soil Organisms>

"Recently, human beings tend to give soil organisms the 'virtual reality' that is represented as humans omniscience. We often forget that the earth we walk on is constantly being destroyed and created. If another reality is created, who creates the land there? The world as seen through the eyes of a human puppet controlled by soil organisms is no different from that of the world in our virtual reality."

<002 Mall>, <002 Harness>, <002 Observation Tool>, <002 Housing>

"Let's imagine the inventions that will be created when even soil organisms have moral standing in the distant future. When humans grant moral status and rights to animals, they will undoubtedly come with transparent homes and leashes as gifts."

<Table Setting>

"A ritual is ostensibly an invitation to the gods, but it is really a performance from a very human perspective, a 'human scale' performance. We don't know if the ghosts, ancestors, gods, and spirits will sit at the head of the table, float spoons, care about the orientation of the fish's head, bow, and listen to the shaman's chanting as if they were human. Nevertheless, the table setting, with its all-too-human promises, is a kind of ancient virtual reality. Through rituals, our space becomes a virtual reality that ancestral deities can access, creating a middle ground between the divine and the human."