2018 SURFING人流 + LIVE FEEDBACK

InGoTam, SURFING人流, Show and Tell, 2018

Chris Han, Live FeedbackI, 2018, Installation, Size variable.

In a modern society where repetitive consumption and unintended behavior can be defined, people who live in a personal media age can be compared to each iPhone, iPad, and anonymous accounts in this work. The voices that resonate around us, the resonating and vibrating sounds, and the images that are repeated over and over are spreading like waves, asking how we live and influence each other and constituting the scene.

Chris Han, Live FeedbackI, 2018, Installation, Size variable(Detail cut)

There are a iPad on the shelves, and a iPhone is in front of the iPad and broadcast Instagram live broadcasts,  taking video of the screen of the iPad with their camera. Each of the iPad is watching to the live broadcast, which causes a video feedback phenomenon, creating a repetitive image every 10 seconds. Also, due to this phenomenon, a feedback sound, which is a kind of noise sound, is generated, and this bizarre sound keeps howling in the exhibition hall with the surrounding audience’s sound. Visitors can participate in this work, by watching the live broadcast or by leaving a comment.

Chris Han, Live FeedbackI, 2018, Installation, Size variable(Video document)

I used the feedback phenomenon in my past work, which seemed to show their own unintended images and sounds by their own mechanical systems. For example, in the 'Encounter between camcorder and TV' work, the TV was placed on the floor, the camera was placed on the top of TV capturing the TV. Because of this, the video feedback and feedback sounds were generated, and two objects were installed in the space as a single sculpture. As such, I am interested in creating different sounds, situations, and meanings that are different from the stereotypes of things what we normally use. Moreover, I recently found that the feedback phenomenon occurs in the live broadcasting of personal media such as Instagram, YouTube, and Facebook. This approach helps me to allow to talk about individuals and society beyond the images and sounds created by machine themselves in the previous work.

Chris Han, Live FeedbackI, 2018, Installation, Size variable(Detail cut)

 Zygmunt Bauman is not looking favorably on the Synopticon society caused by the flood of SNS. In his short essay 'Crowded Solitude, 2008-2009' in the newspaper, he says that modern people who "suffer" from the use of SNS lost their time to think about solitude, and people are deprived of the opportunity to think necessary for true communication. 

Chris Han, Live FeedbackI, 2018, Installation, Size variable(Detail cut)

But I would like to talk about the positive aspects of personal media. In this works, there are various voices, noises, and comments from a lot of individuals in the broadcast scene. The video feedback that comes from the mirroring expands the width of the chapter to infinity, and the feedback sound amplifies stagnant voices, and the subjects gathered communicate with each other. The common space where each person watches each other and freely spoken to each other seems to me like a modern 'Agora'. It may be a space for consultation, in which the true communication of the modern people and the necessary retrospect are simultaneously given to somebody. In this way, I would like to ask the audience whether the SNS will be seen as another 'Prison' like Bauman said or as an 'agora'.

Chris Han, Live Feedback 2, 2018, Installation, Size variable(Inside view)

SURFING人流, POSTER, 2018