Speculative Atlas, 2020
version 1. 3 channel video, HD, color, stereo, 2020
channel 1_Ellipse and Grid_, 3:00min.
channel 2_Spiral Horn and Crystal_, 3:15min.
channel 3_Map of the Image_, 3:30min.
version 2. single-channel version, 9:00min.
video excerpt
installation view, TRAFO Center for Contemporary Art, 2022 (photo: Andrzej Golc)
Shin’s Speculative Atlas is an experimental video essay. In it, the artist deals with the structure of circulating images and relates them to data reproduced in digital space. Natural and artificial objects overlap and create a temporary cluster of numerous interactions between the Internet and the real world, which is constantly transforming and expanding. This creates the possibility of a “pseudo-archive” in which the elusive proximity or distance between virtual and actual physical materiality can be addressed. Shin’s modern implementation draws on the traditional cabinet of curiosities, with refers to specific forms of viewing, collecting and evaluating objects from an aesthetic point of view. At the same time, it explores the possibilities of knowledge accumulation. Associations with the current perspective of so-called data-mining (as a subterm of knowledge discovery in databases, KDD for short): data still seem colonial and linked to capitalist networks of exploitation. The scattered soundtrack and the movements of the image and text fragments in the video create a kind of entropy of the recorded material.
_text by Dagmar Schmengler and Michal Markiewicz
More Information
Exhibition, You Could be Heading Away From the Endless Middle and Towards the Bottom of the Top, TRAFO Center for Contemporary Art, 2022
Exhibition, Ich bin.(I am.), Kunstraum Potsdamer Straße, 2020
Exhibition, Cluster, Hakgojae Design Project Space, 2020
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installation view, Hakgojae Design Project Space, 2020