2022  ·  South Korea  ·  Experimental

The Trace of the Box – Technicalized Good People (2022)

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The Trace of the Box – Technicalized Good People (2022)

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The plants and TV screens in Nam June Paik's TV Garden (1974) maintain their current images without dying, rotting, or breaking down through behind-the-scenes maintenance and technological replacement. The chickens, virtually released in TV Garden by us, are also isolated from other living species or external changes, and live forever free from evolution, reproduction, creation, and decomposition. It seems to symbolize a future utopia in which the ecosystem is won over and maintained by technology. The chickens may be real like the plants in TV Garden or virtual like the images on the TV screens. The only clear thing is that they are easily replaced by cloning technology or safely preserved with mechanical equipment. In this kind of world, humans remain as 'good people' who do not need to consume chickens or cage them for breeding. By borrowing the voice of artificial intelligence in the video, we ask humans who accept a technicalized life without any resistance whether such an immortal life is what we really want to manifest with technology.

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Moojin Brothers
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Moojin Brothers
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Moojin Brothers

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