# Goldilocks

Canonical URL: https://www.xdlab.net/projects/goldilocks
Artwork identifier: https://www.xdlab.net/projects/goldilocks#work
Artwork names: Goldilocks; 골디락스
Korean title: 골디락스
Year: 2025
Artwork creators: Intae Hwang
Medium: Real-time Participatory Data Artwork (Large LED Display, Sound)
Exhibition / venue: KF XR Gallery

## Artwork

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.

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.

## 한국어 작품 설명

실시간 참여형 기후 데이터 아트로, 집단 데이터와 공동의 기후 쾌적 범위를 인터랙션 디자인을 통해 탐구한다.

## Research

Research question: How can individual weather preferences reveal a collective climate comfort zone?
Method: real-time participatory data art, climate data visualisation, interaction design
Research contribution: Makes collective climate preference visible while contrasting human desire with planetary conditions.

## Research concepts

- [real-time participatory data art · 실시간 참여형 데이터 아트](https://www.xdlab.net/projects/goldilocks#concept-participatory-data-art)
- [climate data visualization · 기후 데이터 시각화](https://www.xdlab.net/projects/goldilocks#concept-climate-data-visualization)
- [collective data · 집단 데이터](https://www.xdlab.net/projects/goldilocks#concept-collective-data)
- [interaction design · 인터랙션 디자인](https://www.xdlab.net/about#concept-interaction-design)

## Artwork video

- [Goldilocks video](https://vimeo.com/1139757430)
- [Embedded player](https://player.vimeo.com/video/1139757430)
- [Video thumbnail](https://www.xdlab.net/projects-optimized/8/1-1920.webp)

## Artwork images

- [Goldilocks — image 1 of 9](https://www.xdlab.net/projects-optimized/8/1-1920.webp)
- [Goldilocks — image 2 of 9](https://www.xdlab.net/projects-optimized/8/2-1920.webp)
- [Goldilocks — image 3 of 9](https://www.xdlab.net/projects-optimized/8/3-1920.webp)
- [Goldilocks — image 4 of 9](https://www.xdlab.net/projects-optimized/8/4-1920.webp)
- [Goldilocks — image 5 of 9](https://www.xdlab.net/projects-optimized/8/5-1920.webp)
- [Goldilocks — image 6 of 9](https://www.xdlab.net/projects-optimized/8/6-1920.webp)
- [Goldilocks — image 7 of 9](https://www.xdlab.net/projects-optimized/8/7-1920.webp)
- [Goldilocks — image 8 of 9](https://www.xdlab.net/projects-optimized/8/8-1920.webp)
- [Goldilocks — image 9 of 9](https://www.xdlab.net/projects-optimized/8/9-1920.webp)