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Unmake Lab: Exploring the Relationships Between Technology, Nature, and Society Through Technological Appropriation
Unmake Lab, a collective formed in 2016 by Binna Choi and Sooyon Song, appropriates machine perception to explore ways in which humans, nature, and society can engage with one another through computational means. Their practice particularly focuses on intersecting elements of artificial intelligence—such as datasets, computer vision, and generative neural networks—with the history of developmentalism in Asia, thereby revealing the social, spatial, and ecological conditions of the present.
2025.06.16
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[Critique] A New Echo Created by Thickness
Around 2020, Chung's paintings transformed into reliefs with volume and materiality. It should be noted that this change occurred during the global pandemic, when most people had to communicate only through mediated images in their homes.
2023
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[Critique] Bae Young-whan, “Land of the Birds”
Birds did not appear in Bae Young-whan’s work for the first time in this exhibition. In his 2008 solo show 《A Very Luxurious and Shabby Insomnia》, the work Worry(2008) featured an owl made of broken bottle shards, while
2018.01.08
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[Critique] The Yeesookyungs¹
“In schematized time, nothing really new can emerge—everything is always-already there, and merely deploys its inherent potential... We are dealing here with another temporality, the temporality of freedom, of a radical rupture in the chain of (natural and/or social) causality.”
2012