Jean Shin Units to Community

11.17.2009 // Interdimensional Artists // Rucyl // No Comments

Sound Wave
Sound Wave
Records were melted and sculpted to form a cascading wave, dotted with bursts of colorful labels. The resulting structure speaks to the inevitable waves of technology that render each successive generation of recordable media obsolete. The piece also aims to physically manifest the ephemerality of music as well as one man’s musical tastes, as represented by his personal record collection.

textile-1
TEXTile
22,528 recycled computer keycaps and 192 custom keycaps, fabric, customized active keyboard and interactive software, video projection and painted aluminum armatures; 2.6 ft h x 4 ft w x 20.4 ft d. In this interactive sculpture, thousands of recycled keyboard keys are embedded into a continuous textile. The keys spell out a line-by-line transcript of the email correspondence between the artist and fabricators regarding the creation of the artwork.


Penumbra
Single channel video with sound, 5 minutes 13 seconds,Video of “Penumbra” installation at Socrates Sculpture Park, New York. Rescued from the street after windy storms, broken umbrellas have been deconstructed, reassembled and re-introduced to the outdoor elements.

ChanceCity_SAAM
Chance City, 2001-09
Chance City is made up of thousands of discarded scratch-and-win lottery tickets that have been arranged into an urban complex, constructed as a house of cards. Embodying the failed hopes of ordinary people, the worthless lottery tickets become building blocks for monumental, yet temporary structures. NO GLUE!

  • $32,404 worth of discarded “Scratch & Win” at Smithsonian American Art Museum, 2009.
  • $24,496 worth of discarded “Scratch & Win” losing lottery tickets at Brooklyn Museum, New York, 2004.
  • $17,119 worth of discarded “Scratch & Win” losing lottery tickets at Caren Golden Gallery, New York, 2002.

More of her incredible work at jeanshin.com and there’s audio of her NY Times interview. She is currently working on an installation for Battery Park City in New York.

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  3. [ + - * / ] Installation by Chung-Kun Wang
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