〈Goldilocks〉 자기 날씨를 만들어 서울의 실시간 데이터에 합쳐 보는 법 — 황인태의 인터랙티브 설치 사용 가이드
황인태의 〈Goldilocks〉(2025)는 7가지 기상 요소를 직접 조절해 ‘나의 날씨’를 만들고, 그것을 다른 관객들의 날씨, 그리고 서울의 실시간 기후 데이터와 함께 평면 위에 두는 인터랙티브 설치다. 작품의 핵심은 ‘기후 변화에 대해 표현하고, 경청하고, 염원하는 전 과정을 데이터로 매개한다’는 한 줄에 있다. 이 가이드는 7개의 매개변수가 어떤 의미를 갖는지, 자기 날씨를 어떻게 만들면 작품 안에서 또렷이 들리는지, 그리고 다른 사람의 날씨와 비교될 때 무엇을 보면 좋은지를 정리한다.
7가지 기상 요소가 의미하는 것
작품은 7가지 기상 요소를 조절판으로 제공한다 — 기온, 습도, 풍속, 강수, 일조, 운량, 기압의 일곱이 그 골격이다. 각 매개변수는 단독으로 의미를 갖는 동시에, 다른 매개변수와의 균형 위에서 ‘살 만한 날씨인가’를 결정한다. 너무 따뜻하면서 동시에 건조한 날씨, 시원하면서 흐린 날씨 — 모든 조합이 가능하지만, 모든 조합이 ‘쾌적함’으로 수렴하지는 않는다는 것이 작품이 보여 주려는 첫 진실이다.
자기 날씨를 어떻게 만드나
권장 흐름은 두 사이클이다. 첫 사이클에서는 ‘오늘의 진짜 서울 날씨’와 가까운 값을 만든다. 작품 화면에 서울의 실시간 데이터가 함께 표시되므로, 그 값을 따라가 본인의 입력이 시스템에 어떻게 시각화되는지를 먼저 확인한다. 두 번째 사이클에서는 ‘오늘 살고 싶은 날씨’를 만든다. 첫 번째와 두 번째 사이의 거리가 곧 작품이 묻는 것에 대한 본인의 답이 된다.
한 사용 시간은 약 1–2분이며, 두 사이클을 합쳐 약 4분이 걸린다.
다른 사람의 날씨와 함께 보면 무엇이 보이나
작품은 단일 입력의 시각화에 그치지 않는다. 같은 시간에 그 자리에 다녀간 관객들의 ‘날씨들’이 같은 평면 위에 누적되어, 그 누적의 평균이 서울 실시간 데이터와 어떻게 다른지를 보여 준다. 이 누적이 작가가 부르는 ‘집단적 골디락스 존(Goldilocks zone)’이다. 한 사람의 한 번이 아니라, 여러 사람의 여러 번이 함께 기후 위기에 대한 한 도시 분량의 응답을 만든다.
관람 시각이 다른 사람과 거의 같은 날씨를 만들었다면, 그것은 우연이 아니라 그날 서울의 ‘몸’이 그 방향으로 모인 것이다. 본 작품 앞에서 친구나 동행과 같은 자리에서 두 번 사용해 보면, 두 사람의 합이 평균에 어떻게 들어가는지가 직접 보인다.
두 사람이 함께 할 때, 그리고 추천 동선
작품은 1인 사용을 전제로 작동하지만, 두 사람이 함께 ‘하나의 날씨’를 만드는 시나리오도 가능하다. 한 사람이 기온·습도·일조 측을, 다른 한 사람이 풍속·강수·운량·기압 측을 잡는 식의 분담은 두 사람이 어떤 날씨에서 살고 싶은지에 대한 짧은 대화를 만든다.
동선상으로는 인접한 〈Vessel〉과 한 쌍으로 보는 것이 좋다 — 두 작품 모두 황인태의 ‘서울의 실시간 데이터를 관객의 신체와 공명시키는’ 계열에 속한다.
How to compose your own weather — a visitor's guide to Intae Hwang's Goldilocks at Living Geometry 2026
Goldilocks (2025) by Intae Hwang lets you adjust seven meteorological parameters, build 'your weather', and place it on the same plane as everyone else's weather and Seoul's live climate data. The work's premise is a single line: it mediates the whole arc of expressing, listening to, and yearning about climate change through data. This guide explains what the seven parameters mean, how to compose a weather so it reads clearly inside the system, and what becomes visible once your weather joins the others on screen.
What the seven parameters carry
The work offers seven sliders — temperature, humidity, wind, precipitation, sunlight, cloud cover, and pressure form the spine. Each parameter has its own meaning, but together they decide whether the weather you have made counts as livable. A warm-and-dry day, a cool-and-overcast one — every combination is allowed, but not every combination resolves to comfort. That is the first thing the piece is trying to show you.
How to make a weather
Plan two cycles. In the first cycle, copy 'today's actual Seoul weather' as closely as you can — Seoul's live data is on screen, so you can use it to learn how your sliders translate into the system's visualisation. In the second cycle, build 'the weather you want to live in today'. The distance between cycle one and cycle two is your answer to the question the work is asking.
Each use is about 1–2 minutes; the two cycles together take roughly 4 minutes.
What appears once your weather joins the others
The piece does not stop at one input. The weathers other visitors have built are accumulating on the same plane, and the average of those accumulations is held against Seoul's live data. That accumulation is what Intae Hwang calls the collective Goldilocks zone — a city-sized answer to a climate crisis, made not by one person once but by many people many times.
If your weather closely matches another visitor's, that match is not coincidence; it is the city's body leaning that way today. Two visitors using the work back to back can see directly how their sum lands inside the average.
As a pair, and where it sits on the floor
The piece is built for a single user, but two people can make 'one weather' together — one taking the temperature, humidity, and sunlight side, the other taking wind, precipitation, cloud cover, and pressure. The split makes a short conversation about which weather you would each choose to live in.
On the floor route, watch it as a pair with the adjacent Vessel — both belong to Intae Hwang's line of work that brings Seoul's live data into resonance with the visitor's body.
How to compose your own weather — a visitor's guide to Intae Hwang's Goldilocks at Living Geometry 2026
Goldilocks (2025) by Intae Hwang lets you adjust seven meteorological parameters, build 'your weather', and place it on the same plane as everyone else's weather and Seoul's live climate data. The work's premise is a single line: it mediates the whole arc of expressing, listening to, and yearning about climate change through data. This guide explains what the seven parameters mean, how to compose a weather so it reads clearly inside the system, and what becomes visible once your weather joins the others on screen.
What the seven parameters carry
The work offers seven sliders — temperature, humidity, wind, precipitation, sunlight, cloud cover, and pressure form the spine. Each parameter has its own meaning, but together they decide whether the weather you have made counts as livable. A warm-and-dry day, a cool-and-overcast one — every combination is allowed, but not every combination resolves to comfort. That is the first thing the piece is trying to show you.
How to make a weather
Plan two cycles. In the first cycle, copy 'today's actual Seoul weather' as closely as you can — Seoul's live data is on screen, so you can use it to learn how your sliders translate into the system's visualisation. In the second cycle, build 'the weather you want to live in today'. The distance between cycle one and cycle two is your answer to the question the work is asking.
Each use is about 1–2 minutes; the two cycles together take roughly 4 minutes.
What appears once your weather joins the others
The piece does not stop at one input. The weathers other visitors have built are accumulating on the same plane, and the average of those accumulations is held against Seoul's live data. That accumulation is what Intae Hwang calls the collective Goldilocks zone — a city-sized answer to a climate crisis, made not by one person once but by many people many times.
If your weather closely matches another visitor's, that match is not coincidence; it is the city's body leaning that way today. Two visitors using the work back to back can see directly how their sum lands inside the average.
As a pair, and where it sits on the floor
The piece is built for a single user, but two people can make 'one weather' together — one taking the temperature, humidity, and sunlight side, the other taking wind, precipitation, cloud cover, and pressure. The split makes a short conversation about which weather you would each choose to live in.
On the floor route, watch it as a pair with the adjacent Vessel — both belong to Intae Hwang's line of work that brings Seoul's live data into resonance with the visitor's body.
Transit :: 3-min walk from Yeongdeungpo Station (Line 1, KTX)
Best times :: Weekday mornings or after 17:00
Time per work :: ~4–6 min (two cycles)
About the exhibition
Living Geometry 2026 is a media-art special exhibition curated and developed by the KAIST Experience Design Lab (XD Lab) within KAIST's Department of Industrial Design. It re-threads Yeongdeungpo's visible urban landscape, its invisible data, and the emotional strata behind them in a geometric language — recasting the city, beyond a stilled aggregate of concrete, as an organism in continual pulse. Seven works span single-channel video, interactive installation, and multi-device web art.
Title :: Living Geometry 2026 · 생동 기하학 (Living Geometry)
Dates :: May 1 – Jun 28, 2026
Hours :: Daily 10:00–18:00 (last entry 17:45)
Venue :: YDP Artsquare · Times Square B2F, 15 Yeongjung-ro, Yeongdeungpo-gu, Seoul
