Vampire Night Vision, 2021
Youngho Lee’s AR (Augmented Reality) work, Vampire Night Vision, is an attempt to create an immersive experience in augmented reality that throws an open-ended question of compliance in human perception not from an authority figure from humans, but from the hyper-intellectual system. Having placed herself in the year of 2059 where SMART-59 is spreading and affecting the world in various aspects, the artist throws the following questions. How much is our very own and how much of ourselves are shared with other space? Can we resist to the unspoken violence of paranoia and damage? The goal of this piece is not to criticize the presented situation, but rather, to encourage people to think about things differently and to think for themselves.
Youngho Lee is inspired by digging through visual devices, film, and social history, which she recombines or restructures within her installation works. In her immersive installations, she creates environments for experimental kinetic set-ups that provide visitors with novel experiences of time and space, alienation and familiarity. Lee seeks to identify new relationships between the digital medium and human senses through the development of these synesthetic environments.
