Looking Outwards 09

For this week’s looking outwards, I would like to focus on Korean female artist Mimi Son. She is a creator of interactive artworks and displays. Together with Elliot Woods, they created a Seoul-based art collective called kimchi and chips. Their thoughtful works are mostly a combination of arts, sciences, and philosophy. Son has an obsession with geometry and Buddhist philosophy and that inspires her to document time and space in her own unique ways. She experiments frequently with her installations with the theme of art and technology, material and immaterial, real and virtual, presence and absence.  The specific artwork I want to focus on is her 2018 project Halo. This project consists of 99 robotic mirrors that continuously move throughout the day to follow the sun like sunflowers. These mirrors reflect a beam of sunlight into a cloud of water mist and they are computationally aligned so that together they draw a bright circle in the air. I admire this project because she was able to capture something so intangible by combining technology with nature.

Link to Project: https://kimchiandchips.com/works/halo/

Link to Kimchi and chips: https://kimchiandchips.com/works/