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50 Words in 3D (alpha)
A.K.A. Thesis Helmet
01 02 03 04 05 Second iteration of the 50 Words in Relation, initiated by a questionnaire given from
Paul Elliman. Exploration was started with the idea of putting 50 keywords in a three-dimensional field by each of their relation to my mind. Later development was aimed to establish a navigational system of a virtual brain, inspired by
Johnny Lee’s Wii Remote Projects.
Processing with WiiRemote, Infrared LEDs and Constrction Helmet
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800 x 600 pixels
Yale School of Art, Spring 2008
Related Project:
50 Words in Relation
Undergraduate Senior Project
Exhibition 2008
01 02 03 04 05 A gallery signage and posters for the undergraduate senior projects show at Yale. The show consisted with the works of graduating students from four departments, panting and printmaking, sculpture, graphic design and photography. Each disc with four colors were attached onto a motor and individually controlled by a motion detector.
Inkjet Print and Motors
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205 x 107 inches, 35 x 72 inches
Yale School of Art, Spring 2008
Collaboration with
Yeju Choi
Study: Indiscriminateness
An exploration to indiscriminateness through a YouTube Search based on the monologue from Japanese animation,
Paprika (2006, Satoshi Kon). The monologue is by a chief director whose brain is completely taken over by his own dream while developing a machine that can control someone else’s dream. The sentencing of the monologue is completely random but I found myself trying to make connections among those words even though they are meaningless combinations.
YouTube Videos
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640 x 480 pixels
Yale School of Art, Spring 2008
Thoughts on Printing
A letter to all graphic designers at Yale, sharing printers.
Screen Captures
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480 x 480 pixels
Yale School of Art, Spring 2008
Being Bothered
The weather application for any given zipcode, translating the current weather condition to an ascii visual representation. Starting from the idea of me being affected and bothered by the weather, two major parameters – wind speed and humidity – are processed and used to draw and animate the visual.
Yahoo! Weather RSS, PHP with Javascript
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1280 x 960 pixels
Yale School of Art, Spring 2008
50 Words in Relation
01 02 03 04 05 List of 50 words in response to the email from
Paul Elliman:
“The question I'm asking has long term implications for your practice: What are the main themes, interests, formal recurrences, motifs, motivations, grinding axes, personal obsessions and spectral autisms inherent in your own work?”
Using Visual Thesaurus, 50 keywords are connected each other when they have common thesaurus, to group them by their relations.
Laser Print
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24 x 32 inches
Yale School of Art, Spring 2008
Related Project:
50 Words in 3D (alpha)
A.K.A. Thesis Helmet
Study: Pointlessness
01 02 03 04 05 06 07 One of the sketches of the Event Project at Yale with
Susan Sellers and
Keira Alexandra, focusing on the repetitive but pointless aspect of the activity that’s shown in “Double Standard”. The frustrating repetitive events in our life are written on cards and put in between mirrors to simulate infinite loop of the event.
Laser Printed Cards on Mirrors
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12 x 12 x 12 inches
Yale School of Art, Spring 2008
Related Project:
Double Standard:
Reorganizing a Bookshelf
A Hundred Days at 8pm
www.eroonkang.com/100days
Hundred Days workshop with
Michael Bierut. To capture the fragments of 8pm on any given day, three photographs were taken – one straight up, another straight down, and a screenshot of my laptop (sometimes connected to an external display). Photographs were displayed in chronological order with headline articles pulled off of New York Times to see how my daily life is alienated from variety of events of outer world.
Digital Photos and New York Times Headline
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1280 x 1024 pixels
Yale School of Art, Spring 2008
Workshop with
Michael BierutObserved on
Design Observer, February 2008
Ann Hamilton:
Talking on Her Work
A poster for a speech of
Ann Hamilton, a contemporary American artist. The speech was held at Yale School of Art, direct relation to her own works.
Inkjet Print, Digital Projector on Letter Sized Paper
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24 x 32 inches
Yale School of Art, Spring 2008
Collaboration with
Yeju Choi
Double Standard:
Reorganizing a Bookshelf
The first presentational project of the Event Project at Yale with
Susan Sellers and
Keira Alexandra.
Bookshelf and Masking Tape
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720 x 380 pixels
Yale School of Art, Spring 2008
Related Project:
Justification
If I Were You: First Year Students’
Works Selected By Peers
01 02 03 04 05 A gallery signage for the Yale School of Arts MFA First year students’ exhibition. To communicate the idea of the show that the works were chosen by second years, the second year students’ names were overprinted on top of the first year students’ to screen them using red cellophane film.
Inkjet Print, Cellophane Film Rolls and Static Electricity
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205 x 107 inches, 35 x 72 inches
Yale School of Art, Spring 2008
Collaboration with
Yeju Choi
Fall 2007 Undergraduate
Comprehensive Exhibition
01 02 03 04 05 A gallery signage for the exhibition of the students’ works from undergraduate art classes at Yale 2007. Every names of each art class were broken down into the smallest units and reconstructed together in order to create a new name that covers the whole study area of Yale School of Art. Overprinted on the Art section of the course catalogue of 2007.
Laser Print on Newsprint
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205 x 107 inches, 35 x 72 inches
Yale School of Art, Fall 2007
Collaboration with
Rachel Berger
2 ½ Years of Vocabulary
01 02 03 04 The third iteration of the Site Project at Yale with
Sheila Levrant de Bretteville. Based on the assumption of myself being in a vent-like situation, – in between English and Korean speaking culture – a vocabulary test was made using New York Times and Wall Street Journal. The words that I don’t know were blacked out to recreate the experience of not knowing those words while reading a newspaper followed by additional cheat sheet with the words in same position with Korean translations.
Inkjet Print on Newsprint
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18 x 24 inches
Yale School of Art, Fall 2007
Related Project:
Study: a Vent
Alcatraz:
a poem by Sharon Olds
A visual interpretation of the poem
Alcatraz by
Sharon Olds.
Motion Graphics
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720 x 480 pixels
Yale School of Art, Fall 2007
Natinal Branding:
Climate Crisis on Djibouti
01 02 03 04 05 An outcome from a national branding workshop held by
Daniël van der Velden at Yale. To communicate the paradox of a country that has been nominated as one of the most effected countries from climate crisis, has virtually no part in occurring the crisis. The booklet is divided into two parts, first part being a factual data about the country and the second part being a statistical prediction about what will happen, such as losses and remainders of the country after being effected.
Laser Print on Graph Paper and Lab Notebook
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8½ x 11 inches
Yale School of Art, Fall 2007
Workshop with
Daniël van der Velden
Study: a Vent
01 02 The first and the second iteration of the Site Project at Yale with
Sheila Levrant de Bretteville. Spatial relationship between inside and outside was explored using a vent located in the graphic design atrium.
Motion Graphics
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640 x 480 pixels
Yale School of Art, Fall 2007
Related Project:
2 ½ Years of Vocabulary
Real: 9/11/2007
01 02 03 04 05 A booklet about real made from a workshop at Yale with
Karel Martens. The idea rooted on the different interpretation about the world between traditional and new media. On the day of 9/11/2007 (6 years later), page 1 to 10 of New York Times and top 10 search terms from
Google Trends were displayed together page by page to raise the argument of comparing what we think we are up to to what we actually are up to.
Laser Print
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8½ x 11 inches
Yale School of Art, Fall 2007
The System: Mapped Out
01 02 03 04 www.meetbyaccident.net
In the capitalistic system we live in, almost every event of daily life consequently leaves a trace as a revenue or expenditure. Since it is possible to track one's behavior pattern by investigating those traces, this documentary piece is intended to geographically patternize the money spending of myself.
It is a part of the 'self-observation series' and it tracks down every transaction that was made through my debit card in the year of 2006. Based on the banking history of the Bank of America, account balances and each transaction details are described on the top panel. The bottom two panels of map represent the location of the transaction with red strings connecting each transaction to the physical space of it.
Inkjet Print on Newsprint, Maps, Map Tacks and Strings
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Dimensions vary
Meet by Accident, 2007
Related Project:
Where Did It All Go?
Where Did It All Go?
01 02 03 A newspaper formatted personal financial report of 2006. Pulled off from monthly bank statements of Bank of America, statistics about my financial footprints are displayed such as top ten expenditures of the year, distribution by categories and repetitive activities. For the inside spread, the actual data of the statements are displayed with earnings in green background. The sharp spikes of the account balance graph are tuition payments, ranked as #1 through #3 in top ten yearly expenditures.
Inkjet Print on Newsprint
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13½ x 22 inches
School of Visual Arts, Fall 2006
Related Project:
The System: Mapped Out
The End of
01 02 03 04 The end of Japanese imperial period and how it occurred: not in a consequence of Korean independence movement but as a result of Manhattan Project and the end of the Second World War. The timelines of three separate events – Korean independence movement, Manhattan Project, The Second World War – were mapped on a world map to analyze the cause and effect relationship among those events. To add another perspective of looking at these relationships, decision makers of the events are also displayed and connected to the things occurred by their decision.
Inkjet Print
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24 x 46 inches
School of Visual Arts, Fall 2006
Week 40 of 2006
01 02 03 04 An accumulated itinerary of the week 40 of 2006. As a student, a week usually was a repetitive unit of my own life. To see the behavioral pattern of a week, the streets and subways that I took regularly are displayed and the amount of time that I spent on a spot was represented as a size of a circle around it. Conversations that I had are also presented in different color according to the communication protocols. The top part on the map is New Jersey and the lower part is Manhattan.
Laser Print on Transparent Film
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17 x 9½ inches
School of Visual Arts, Fall 2006
Relationship Between Things
01 02 A sketch for an interactive map of my possessions. Everything that I have lies on its own context and there are certain connections among them. – From a set of things that are given from my ex-girlfriend to the things that I bought at a certain place over the past several years. To recognize and visualize these relations, every object that I have were categorized, photographed and tagged to browse and navigate through.
Application on Screen
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800 x 600 pixels
School of Visual Arts, Fall 2006
No Loitering
01 02 03 04 05 A book made out of selected photos taken from the road trip to the United States in the summer of 2006. Capturing the sense of urban typographic environment of the States was the purpose of the trip and it resulted 6,500 photos of inspirational snippets of visual communication. The color information of the photos was stripped down to black and white for the further investigation of their typographical treatments.
Laser Print
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8½ x 7½ inches
School of Visual Arts, Fall 2006
Related Project:
Street Graphics of the States
Street Graphics of the States
01 02 03 04 05 A Photographic diary consisting 260 selected photos out of nearly 6,500 taken from a road trip to the United States with
Jaekyung Jung during the summer of 2006. Abandoned street graphics and signs were captured, everything from a line drawing of a mouse poking out from a corner found at a rest room to an old, huge typographic advertisement on a wall of an antique building. The trip went on 45 days and visited 24 cities.
Visited cities in order: New York, NY, Baltimore, MD, Pittsburgh, PA, Niagara Falls, NY, Buffalo, NY, Jersey City, NJ, Orlando, FL, Cocoa Beach, FL, Miami, FL, Key West, FL, Everglades, FL, Tampa, FL, Jacksonville, FL, Savannah, GA, Atlanta, GA, Nashville, TN, St. Louis, MO, Kansas City, MO, Denver, CO, Hot Sulphur Springs, CO, Omaha, NE, Chicago, IL, South Bend, IN, and Providence, RI.
Offset Print
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3½ x 5 inches
Published by Vinyl, Inc
Co-published with
Jaekyung JungMovie made by
Jaekyung Jung
Related Project:
No Loitering
Contact: E Roon Kang
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