Position Paper H Jung

I take art as a mode of communication, which shows the exploration of my interests and thoughts. I try to capture how I am conscious with my surroundings and intrigue the audiences to question their own. I have been experimenting with different media, mainly photography, text, and sculpture, and came to the new media technology facing the fact that it is an inevitable yet fascinating medium. In spite of my fascination to technology, I could not develop my skillset in this field due to my broad interests. Therefore I chose Digital Craft as Minor to limit myself to actually work in certain context. I believe limitation gives you even more freedom and focusing on one media and deepening is very important. As an artist, you should be able to utilise any medium which is the most suitable to your works. The immersive effect of new media technology is very powerful. I wanted to know what media technologies are out there nowadays and what kind of topics are being discussed at the moment. I also like the concept of combining digital and analogue, respecting the value of craftmanship. I appreciate physicality in art form, and working with spatial functionality enables you to create a zone with the artwork and give an immersive effect on audiences. For me, one of my all time interest was sound, so I wanted to commit myself to work with sound for this semester. I have been always fascinated by weird noise and sound, and dreaming of producing electronic music at some point in my life. However, I could not really specify which aspect of sound I was intrigued before. Therefore I decided to something has to do with sound for the exercises. In exercise 2, as a group, we made a device to experience being underwater using water as a sound filter. In exercise 3, I dissembled a tape player to understand more about sound devices. I figured out that a tape head inside the tape play reads the information on the tape so without any tape facing on the tape head, I could hear the noise of electromagnetic field when it was close to magnetic. From exercise 2 and 3, I dragged my research topic as our perception to sound around us. I was interested in the hypnotising and meditating effect of sound since it brings us to another state of mind. I also wanted to define what is the border between sound art and music. Therefore, my research question became “How do we perceive sound around us? How do we find it meaningful?”