June 17 – 21, 2020
2020년 6월 17일 – 21일
Flexspace C, CICA Museum
Emotional Connection
The environments and numerous scenes we encounter in our lives make our consciousness and emotions. These scenes are converted to data and stored in an abstract form with certain rules through the brain’s memory circuits. This exhibition intends to express these abstract forms of memory through media art.
We encounter many scenes in our daily lives: various things in the house that we see when we wake up in the morning, the faces of your family, the street scenes you see while you go to work, the colleagues in the office, the scenes on the TV, the scenes of the movie, the scenes of the trip, etc.
All of these remain as a memory in the brain. The shape of the memory is not as clear as the picture taken with the camera being stored. In fact, the brain’s capacity is not enough to store that many photos and videos. The brain extracts and compresses the features of the scenes and stores them.
Deep learning, an area of artificial intelligence technology, mimics the way these brains work, and abstracts them by drawing commonalities between images composed of numerous scenes.
In this work, the scenes of everyday life that I see are abstracted by extracting only those common elements using deep learning. The abstracted continuous image implies my consciousness and emotions. The abstract memories coming in from the outside and my existing experiences are combined to form the appearance of external emotions.
Changwoo Yoon is an artist and AI (Artificial Intelligence) scientist. He received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the University of Florida, US. Currently he is a principal researcher at ETRI (Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute) and professor at UST (University of Science and Technology). His current research interests include Brain Science, Artificial Intelligence, Wearable computing, and IoT. His individual direction in art is a convergence with brain science and AI technology. The initial approach to convergence is finding out the mechanism of how people see and feel through brain science and trying to apply the found facts to artwork.
Changwoo Yoon,”Shape of Thought” (2020)