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Scroll Down Journey 2015
Scroll Down Journey는 2D 디지털 애니메이션 작품으로 동시대 인간이 이 세상을 보다 효율적으로 관찰하고 탐험하는 기본적 본능에 의해 만들어낸 뉴미디어기술에 의해 구축된 혹은 그 도구들에 의해 보여지는 우리의 세계에 대한 이야기를 전한다. 인간의 시각적 경험과 행위를 디지털 이미지기술이 어떻게 변화시키고 우리 인간은 어떻게 그 기술들을 이용하고 보여지는지에 대해 탐구하는 작업이다. 스크린이라는 디지털 평면공간 안에 납작하게 펼쳐진 현실이미지세계를 드라이브하는 자동차의 모습을 보여주는 작업으로 위성사진과 드론촬영등을 통해 수집한 수직시점 공간이미지들을 디지털 페인팅기법으로 2D화 시키고 그 이미지들이 연결된 하나의 가상지도를 바탕으로 제작되었다.

The 2D digital animation Scroll Down Journey portrays the human world that is constructed or illustrated by new media technology, which was invented by the basic human instinct to observe and explore this world more efficiently. It explores how the digital image technology changes the human visual experiences and actions, and the ways in which human beings use and are portrayed by such technology. In Scroll Down Journey, a car traverses a real image world which is flatly laid out in the digital flat space of the screen, based on a background image of a virtual map put together by 2D renditions of spatial images in vertical perspective –– collected through satellite photographs and drone footages —through digital painting technique.
We’re used to being reduced to a single dot in the virtual digitized map space in navigation systems, and traversing on certain paths to make our movements in the real space more effective. The image and movement in such virtual space flattens our understanding of real space, and re-mediates the concept of space as seen through human eye. The ceaseless flow of cars, signifying the human movement in virtual space, expresses the human movement in the virtualized space today.

Scroll Down Journey, Digital Animation, 6'20", Sound, 2015

Animation by Sung Rok Choi
Music by Johann Electric Bach