Algorithmic Possession: Chants for Earth, Samsin
2025
Outdoor installation
110 x 220 x 110 cm
Multiplex, Aluminum, Hard PVC Mirror Sheet, printed textile

This installation enacts a techno-shamanistic ritual, where algorithm and myth co-existโ€”not as tool and subject, but as entangled agents. It conjures Samsin Halmi, the Korean earth goddess of life, birth, and fate, through a series of AI-generated portraits.

These portraits, shaped by biased data, repeatedly fail to depict the genderqueer, non-white deity I seek to summon. Yet in their failure, a haunting multiplicity arisesโ€”not absence, but a presence that slips through dominant modes of recognition.

Rather than represent Samsin, the installation becomes a site of possession, where ancestral memory and machine vision intertwine. By multiplying and obscuring these portraits, it resists clarityโ€”echoing the logic of possession, where identity transforms rather than appears. Samsin does not emerge as a fixed icon, but as a shifting presence carried by wind, code, and refusal.

Set in an open garden, the structure acts as a vessel: porous, reflective, responsive. Visitors may enter, be partially veiled, and perhaps briefly possessed by a gaze that shimmers between nature, machine, and myth.

Location: Lobe Block garden
Exhibition: <Wilder Ground>, curated by AC+collective
Algorithmic Possession: ๋Œ€์ง€๋ฅผ ์œ„ํ•œ ์ฃผ๋ฌธ, ์‚ผ์‹ 

2025
110 ร— 220 ร— 110 cm
์•ผ์™ธ ์„ค์น˜
ํ•ฉํŒ, ์•Œ๋ฃจ๋ฏธ๋Š„, ํ•˜๋“œ PVC ๋ฏธ๋Ÿฌ ์‹œํŠธ, ์ธ์‡„๋œย ์ฒœ

๋ณธ ์„ค์น˜ ์ž‘์—…์€ ์•Œ๊ณ ๋ฆฌ์ฆ˜๊ณผ ์‹ ํ™”๊ฐ€ ๋‚˜๋ž€ํžˆ ์กด์žฌํ•˜๋Š” ๊ธฐ์ˆ -์ƒค๋จธ๋‹ˆ์ฆ˜์  ์˜๋ก€๋ฅผ ์ˆ˜ํ–‰ํ•œ๋‹ค. ์•Œ๊ณ ๋ฆฌ์ฆ˜๊ณผ ์‹ ํ™”๋Š” ์ˆ˜๋‹จ๊ณผ ๋Œ€์ƒ์˜ ๊ด€๊ณ„๊ฐ€ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ, ์„œ๋กœ ์–ฝํ˜€์„œ ๋ณ€ํ˜•์‹œํ‚ค๋Š” ๊ณตํ–‰ ์ฃผ์ฒด(entangled agents)๋กœ์„œ ์ƒํ˜ธ์ž‘์šฉํ•œ๋‹ค. ์ƒ๋ช…, ํƒ„์ƒ, ์šด๋ช…์„ ๊ด€์žฅํ•˜๋Š” ํ•œ๊ตญ ์‹ ํ™” ์† ์—ฌ์‹  ์‚ผ์‹ ํ• ๋ฏธ๋ฅผ, AI๊ฐ€ ์ƒ์„ฑํ•œ ์ผ๋ จ์˜ ์ดˆ์ƒ๋“ค์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ์†Œํ™˜ํ•œ๋‹ค.

์ด ์ดˆ์ƒ๋“ค์€ ํŽธํ–ฅ๋œ ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ์— ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜ํ•ด ์ƒ์„ฑ๋˜๋ฉฐ, ๋ฐ˜๋ณต๋˜๋Š” ์‹œ๋„์—๋„ ๋ถˆ๊ตฌํ•˜๊ณ  ํ€ด์–ดํ•˜๊ณ  ๋น„๋ฐฑ์ธ์ ์ธ ์‹ ์  ์กด์žฌ๋ฅผ ๋๋‚ด ์˜จ์ „ํžˆ ์žฌํ˜„ํ•˜์ง€ ๋ชปํ•œ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜ ์ด ๋ฐ˜๋ณต๋œ ์‹คํŒจ๋Š” ๋‹จ์ˆœํ•œ ๊ฒฐํ•จ์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ, ์ง€๋ฐฐ์ ์ธ ์ธ์‹ ์ฒด๊ณ„๋กœ๋Š” ํฌ์ฐฉ๋˜์ง€ ์•Š๋Š” ๋‹ค์ธต์ ์ธ ์‹ ํ™”์  ํ˜„์กด์„ ๋“œ๋Ÿฌ๋‚ธ๋‹ค.

์ž‘์—…์€ ์‚ผ์‹ ์„ ๊ณ ์ •๋œ ํ˜•์ƒ์œผ๋กœ ์žฌํ˜„ํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š๋Š”๋‹ค. ๋Œ€์‹ , ์•Œ๊ณ ๋ฆฌ์ฆ˜์˜ ์‹œ์„ ๊ณผ ์กฐ์ƒ์  ๊ธฐ์–ต์ด ๊ต์ฐจํ•˜๋Š” ์ ‘์‹ ์˜ ๊ณต๊ฐ„์„ ํ˜•์„ฑํ•œ๋‹ค. ์ด๋ฏธ์ง€๋“ค์€ ์ค‘์ฒฉ๋˜๊ณ  ๋ถˆ๋ถ„๋ช…ํ•ด์ง€๋ฉฐ ์ธ์‹์˜ ๋ช…๋ฃŒํ•จ์„ ๊ฑฐ๋ถ€ํ•˜๊ณ , ๊ทธ ์•ˆ์—์„œ ์ •์ฒด์„ฑ์€ ์ถœํ˜„์ด ์•„๋‹Œ โ€˜๋ณ€ํ˜•โ€™์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ์‚ด์•„๋‚œ๋‹ค. ์‚ผ์‹ ์€ ๋ฐ”๋žŒ๊ณผ ์ฝ”๋“œ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๊ฑฐ๋ถ€์˜ ํ๋ฆ„์„ ํƒ€๊ณ  ์›€์ง์ด๋Š” ์œ ๋™์ ์ธ ํ˜„์กด์œผ๋กœ ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋‚œ๋‹ค.

์•ผ์™ธ ์ •์›์— ๋ฐฐ์น˜๋œ ์ž‘์—…์€ ๊ณต๊ธฐ์™€ ๋น›์ด ํ†ต๊ณผํ•˜๊ณ , ํ‘œ๋ฉด์€ ์ฃผ๋ณ€ ํ™˜๊ฒฝ๊ณผ ๊ด€๋žŒ์ž์˜ ๋ชธ์„ ๋ฐ˜์‚ฌํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ๋ฐ”๋žŒ๊ณผ ์›€์ง์ž„์— ๋ฐ˜์‘ํ•˜๋Š” ์œ ๊ธฐ์  ๊ตฌ์กฐ๋กœ์„œ ๊ด€๊ฐ์„ ๊ทธ ์•ˆ์œผ๋กœ ์ดˆ๋Œ€ํ•œ๋‹ค.
๊ทธ ์•ˆ์—์„œ ๊ด€๋žŒ์ž๋Š” ์ž์—ฐ๊ณผ ๊ธฐ๊ณ„, ์‹ ํ™”๊ฐ€ ๊ต์ฐจํ•˜๋Š” ์‹œ์„ ์— ๋…ธ์ถœ๋˜๋ฉฐ, ์ผ์‹œ์ ์œผ๋กœ โ€˜๋น™์˜๋˜๋Š”โ€™ ๊ฐ๊ฐ์  ์ฒดํ—˜์„ ๋งˆ์ฃผํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋œ๋‹ค.

์ „์‹œ: <Wilder Ground>, Lobe Block ์ •์›, AC+collective ์ฃผ์ตœ

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