My work originates from anxiety over relationships with others, identity, death and so on. The commonality of these causes of anxiety is ambiguity. Invisible, immaterial, undefinable things are vague. Those things make me anxious, so I became dependent upon quantifying things, due to my anxiety about invisible things. I created work through the primary and secondary process of datafying (making into data).
First, I using information based on the facts such as psychological examinations, the records of taking medication and its side effects, and the records of the substances of the herbs. The reason I primarily conducted the process of making into data is that subjective things obtained the objective power, soothing anxiety. However, they might soothe anxiety at first as a human being or emotions are converted into data, they become subject to being extinguished, distorted or misunderstood, according to certain criteria.
Therefore, I recreated the results of the first datafication according to my own illogical and unscientific criteria through the second datafication. The examples of the second datafication are the process of converting the time to take the medicine into music scales, by creating asymmetrical images by mixing information on the substances needed for curing side effects, and by creating imaginary herbs by collecting the plants that contained the required substances. Through the process of first and second datafication, I express the moment that things can not datafied entirely such as atmosphere, space that only human can have.
Also, my work contains contents of the fallacy of misplaced correctness that occur during datafication. other words, through certain criteria I set up, I am making artwork the falsehood of the humans being put into data by means of the process in which the by-products of the primary datafication are visualized and auralized (unscientific and illogical). It is hard to know the starting point or the ending point of ambiguous things. I am interested in stories, moment by moment, coming out of things that have blurry boundaries and are constantly changing, rather than in stories that have an “ending” or a “conclusion.” So, to me, the process of working and thinking are more important than the result and crafts.
Since my work begins with ambiguous things without clear boundaries, I employ various methods and approaches in the process, such as psychological, scientific, musical, and statistical approaches. In other words, through certain criteria I set up, I studied the falsehood of the humans being put into data by means of the process in which the by-products of the primary datafication are visualized and auralized (unscientific and illogical).
First, I using information based on the facts such as psychological examinations, the records of taking medication and its side effects, and the records of the substances of the herbs. The reason I primarily conducted the process of making into data is that subjective things obtained the objective power, soothing anxiety. However, they might soothe anxiety at first as a human being or emotions are converted into data, they become subject to being extinguished, distorted or misunderstood, according to certain criteria.
Therefore, I recreated the results of the first datafication according to my own illogical and unscientific criteria through the second datafication. The examples of the second datafication are the process of converting the time to take the medicine into music scales, by creating asymmetrical images by mixing information on the substances needed for curing side effects, and by creating imaginary herbs by collecting the plants that contained the required substances. Through the process of first and second datafication, I express the moment that things can not datafied entirely such as atmosphere, space that only human can have.
Also, my work contains contents of the fallacy of misplaced correctness that occur during datafication. other words, through certain criteria I set up, I am making artwork the falsehood of the humans being put into data by means of the process in which the by-products of the primary datafication are visualized and auralized (unscientific and illogical). It is hard to know the starting point or the ending point of ambiguous things. I am interested in stories, moment by moment, coming out of things that have blurry boundaries and are constantly changing, rather than in stories that have an “ending” or a “conclusion.” So, to me, the process of working and thinking are more important than the result and crafts.
Since my work begins with ambiguous things without clear boundaries, I employ various methods and approaches in the process, such as psychological, scientific, musical, and statistical approaches. In other words, through certain criteria I set up, I studied the falsehood of the humans being put into data by means of the process in which the by-products of the primary datafication are visualized and auralized (unscientific and illogical).
-Suji Han