The existing public art was limited to the field of art. However, this work was started from a question of whether there was more social participation. For the general public, I tried to find a new form of public art that contributes to society by exp...
The existing public art was limited to the field of art. However, this work was started from a question of whether there was more social participation. For the general public, I tried to find a new form of public art that contributes to society by expanding the scope of collaboration not only to pure art work, but also to breathe with citizens.
Therefore, I participated in ‘Anyang Station Donation Stairs Project' which is participation for social contribution as a artist.
The project name is <Life - Butterfly - Fourth Industry>, which is a step of system that induces the use of stairs by flowing beautiful artwork and music on the monotonous subway stairs, accumulating donations by users and returning them to neighbors. The role of design is very important when the project is pursued by Anyang City, a public organization, and the cooperation of the Hyosung Group's facility expenses, donation support fund and the location of the Railway Agency. Anyang City aims to be an arts and humanities city with its existing policy, and seeks to apply the works of artists with actual works as an area differentiating from existing designs. Thus, Anyang City selected Kim Hyun-jung(Diane Kim), a butterfly artist, whose work style and motif corresponds to the 4th industry in order to adopt a artist who is suitable for the symbolic place of the city. So I made the work of the theme of 'Life- Butterfly - 4th Industry', which applied LED to the working method based on digital, as public art by collaborating with technology field.
And I made a work that applied LED to the working method based on digital and collaborated with a technical team of a mechatronics company, Munwhayegam, This process is an attempt to expand the field of art by the fusion of digital and culture, the code of the fourth industrial revolution era.
This public art work is not only a participation of general urban design but also a living donation system. It is based on sensor and digital optical technology, and enlarges and reproduces artist's works from the physical space of stairs to the digital space of SNS. As a result. The donation stairs of the Anyang Station (subtitle: the butterfly stairs) play a direct role in social contribution and are a new direction of public art in the 4th industrial era showing the fusion of art and technology.
At the Davos Forum in 2017, the Fourth Industrial Revolution is defined as "the era of technology convergence where the boundaries of physical space, digital space and biological space are diluted based on the digital revolution". In this point of view, this project is a project in which an artist can go beyond providing way of formative beauty and design and can fuse with technology in the first place, and participate directly in social contribution activities through sponsorship and cooperation of various organizations and corporations And it shows the shape of the works that correspond to the 4th industrial age by applying the technology of advanced sensor technology and intelligent counter.
In the future, I hope that the role and scope of public art will expand, and society will be enriched with various types of arts.