Water Lights (2008)

Jae Min Lee
http://www.jaeminlee.net



Abstract:
Water Lights (2008) is an interactive installation using the sense of touch like Braille type. The surface of this work has a lot of raised points, and each point is connected with a LED whose brightness is controlled by sensors according to the amount of water on each point’s surface. People can make lighting images and patterns through touching their finger on it with water. It is from my interest in various ways of visualization by feeling instead of seeing.


Short project description:
Most of my works is looking for the intimate relationship between human technology and nature. How we use technology to imitate natural phenomena is a subject of great concern to me. I allow nature to literally play a part in my works, and by observing the visualization of unpredictable sequences in nature, the public has the opportunity to achieve a closer connection with nature. I see nature not in a way that is separate from modern technology, but in a way that recognizes the intimacy between the two.

I like to show my perspective to nature on the exhibition, 'thisAbility vs. Disability'. Water Lights (2008) encourages people to dissolve a part of their nature in other’s that. The thought like dichotomy distinguishes everything that must belong to one part or the other part independently. It causes that people separate the disabled from the social community.

I look for the sense of the intimacy by overlapping a piece of various feelings. The stimulation of one sensory leads to a second sensory to be sensorial diversity both emotionally and viscerally. It makes us to say our experience by using different sensations and impressions they felt. In other words, it is the effort to find various grays between white and black.