Goldilocks — Intae Hwang (2025)
《Goldilocks》은(는) Intae Hwang의 2025년 작품이다. 매체: Real-time Participatory Data Artwork (Large LED Display, Sound). 장소: KF XR Gallery. KAIST 경험디자인연구실(XD Lab)에서 제작·연구되었으며, 미디어아트·인터랙티브 아트·웹 아트 맥락에서 감상할 수 있다.
크레딧
- 작가
- Intae Hwang
- 연도
- 2025
- 매체
- Real-time Participatory Data Artwork (Large LED Display, Sound)
- 장소
- KF XR Gallery
- 참여
- Intae Hwang: Artist
Yiyun Kang: Advisor
요약
Goldilocks is a real-time participatory data artwork that explores the 'just right' equilibrium of our climate. By translating personal weather preferences into unique visual data units, the work maps a 'collective climate comfort zone'. Through a similarity-based spatial arrangement, it juxtaposes human desire with planetary reality, revealing the fragility of our ideal states while celebrating the resilience of collective hope.
작품 설명
In the context of the Anthropocene, climate data is often presented as cold, overwhelming, and distant. Goldilocks reclaims this narrative through the lens of Data Humanism, shifting the focus from abstract planetary metrics to the intimate scale of human sentiment. The title references the 'Goldilocks Zone', which is the precarious astronomical boundary where conditions are 'just right' for life, as a metaphor for the delicate balance required to sustain our contemporary world.
The installation invites viewers to participate in an act of data translation. Through an interactive interface, participants articulate their favorite weather, an idealized environmental state, which is instantly manifested as a unique visual entity within a real-time environment. Utilizing custom systems, these individual units are not merely stored but are dynamically organized based on their systemic similarity. As more voices join, the work evolves into a visual orrery of human desire, forming a 'collective climate comfort zone.'
However, this sanctuary of personal preference exists in a state of tension. The work periodically juxtaposes this curated comfort zone with raw, real-time climate data, creating a poignant paradox: the 'just right' state desired by many is revealed to be increasingly vulnerable in the face of current environmental shifts. By manifesting the transscalar link between individual sensory memory and global climate reality, Goldilocks moves beyond a simple visualization of crisis. It offers a meditative space where the gathering of small, diverse voices points toward the possibility of collective hope and systemic resilience.
자주 묻는 질문
- 누가 만든 작품인가요?
- Intae Hwang. KAIST 경험디자인연구실(XD Lab) 소속 연구자가 제작한 작품입니다.
- 어떤 매체로 만든 작품인가요?
- Real-time Participatory Data Artwork (Large LED Display, Sound).
- 어디서 전시되었나요?
- KF XR Gallery.
