Exhibition Information

Han YoonChung, Kim SeongLyun Plastic Landscape-The Reversible World
2023 Multi-channel video, color, two-channel sound
(Source = Ulsan art museum)

			SPACE : XR Lab (B1) 
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■ Data Distorted(Series #2) Introduction

Han, Yoon Chung(Artist) × Kim, Seong-Lyun(Scientist)

Plastic Landscape-The Reversible World
2023, Multi-channel video, color, two-channel sound, 12’15”
3D animation _　Hung-Hsuan Tsai
Sound design _  Soo Jung Kwak　

Plastic Landscape-The Reversible World is an interactive 3D animation installation and projection piece that applies reverse neural network algorithms as opposed to the input/output directionality as found in typical digital systems. In doing so, the piece raises awareness about microplastics, which are a cause of environmental issues in the present day.

Han harnesses the potential of inverse style transfers by Kim's research team and uses images of nature in plastic as a basis, thus producing a landscape filled with newly refined 3D plastic objects. In the imagination that effloresces in the reversible world of the distorted digital, a space that is reformed by the new reverse neural network algorithm, the four worlds of the plastic landscape combine with rich, dense sound effects to intensify a sense of immersion. The piece is an extension of Han’s work over the past years, of art based on climate change data.

The piece brings audiences face to face with the reality of climate change, while at the same time foreboding a future that has been destroyed by microplastics; the piece will inspire audiences to take action of their own accord. The piece has experimented with the so called digital silence approach by intentionally allowing errors, erasing data, and reducing complexity in the process of applying the neural network algorithms. Much like the shadows that emerge behind objects in the sunlight, the piece also applies the engineering concept of duality to AI, thus manifesting that process of discovering a reversible world within the piece itself.

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(Source = Ulsan art museum)