So near, So far

Abstract

This paper is intended to elucidate and analyze artistic practice performed during my doctorate study based on observations of the screen as a receptive surface where the invisible becomes visible and perception and imagination combine. The screen reveals the process of the human mind on perceiving specific things in between a variety of appearances and the endless desire and self-experience that drive one’s perspective to somewhere over physical distance, somewhere we can see our progressions in time. Within the scope of the correlation between screen and space, screen-based works will be revisited through its emergent relationship with the spectator, where the spectator encounters the new materiality of the screen and produces a new subjectivity of affirmation. Furthermore, the paper explains the medium and interactive system used in new media artwork where found footage, computer-aided, real-time visualization, and new possibilities of expressions are visible. Based on an interpretation of Paul Virilio’s theory of dromology (the logic of speed), my dissertation exhibition investigates how one relates to moving images and then seeks to identify modes of associations among ideas that occur in reality. The exhibition aims to expand the perception of existence by implementing screens that become temporal and spatial and are then vitalized through fusion and exchange with real-space parameters such as distance, scale, speed, and directionality.