About Soyun Park
Soyun Park is an interdisciplinary artist, designer and educator from South Korea living in The Hague, The Netherlands. She’s also a founder of a community-based studio for bonding technology, RGBdog.
She’s fascinated by technology’s historical, emotional, literary, comical, filmic, fictional, humane, societal, political, gamified, capitalised, decentralised, and solidarity aspects. She often examines ‘tools’ from different perspectives and feels the joy of exploring them in connection to a larger context, often with humour.
Often in collaborations, her work takes the forms of videos, installations, and audiovisual performances experimenting with a variety of new media and technology, investigating connection and the gap between the RGB world and reality which is getting thinner every day.
She has exhibited and performed at media art festivals, cultural venues and film festivals including for example Rewire Festival (NL), Nederland Fotomuseum (NL), Ars Electronica (AT), CTM Festival (DE), Jeonju International Film Festival (KR) and iii workspace (NL).
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Workshop Information
This workshop is inspired by Soyun Park’s past experiment, being a lizard.
You will first explore other beings/organisms that you wish to befriend / interact with / be merged with. Soyun will start the workshop by shortly introducing herself, her works and educational visions, and some of the theoretical examples of interspecies collaboration from two books, James Bridle’s Ways of Being & Donna Haraway’s Staying with the Trouble.
The practical part of this workshop is rather playful and fun. After some research, the participants will film themselves with physical movements that resemble the non-human beings of their choices. Learning open source text-to-image AI tools such as Stable Diffusion, we will turn ourselves into inter-transformed, inter-merged new beings.
This workshop is beginner friendly.
