You might say that the speed with which we communicate today has removed the elements of anticipation back when we used to wait for things in the mail.

Korean design studio [HYBE](http://www.hybe.org/), who we interviewed awhile back for their [homage to Dan Flavin](http://www.thecreatorsproject.com/blog/design-studio-hybe-make-interactive-dan-flavins), is throwing back to the days yesteryear, the age of slow, meaningful communication, with their new piece _Leaf: Autumn 2012_.

The installation mimics the falling of autumn leaves, instead shedding printed messages. Visitors write notes on a screen connected to a mini thermal printer at the end of each metal tree branch. Each message falls as output once new input is received. Embedding a sense of time and physicality to this messaging sculpture, HYBE allows participants to watch their digital messages print onto real paper and become a physical part of the installation.

If you&#x2019;re in Seoul, be sure to catch _Leaf: Autumn 2012_ at the [Culture Station Seoul 284](http://seoul284.org) as part of the _[Life: A User&#x2019;s Manual](http://seoul284.org/new/program/current.php?tb=app_board_03&dtype=2#34)_ exhibition running until November 4th. If you can&#x2019;t make it, check out the digital messages [here](http://osf.kr/gallery/).

Stainless pipe, Acrylic, Custom designed controller board, PC, Touch monitor. 
300(W)x300(H)x300(D)cm /

Leaf(2012) is an interactive installation designed in mind of the physicality of the old way of communication and a life in which one longs for a sense that is space-oriented. The development of communication technology has made it very convenient to overcome the limitation of time and space. With mobile phones, we can now simply send messages to each other. Such a way of communication is a conquest over the materialitiy and the space-oriented characteristic of ordinary communication media such as letters, post boxes and bulletin boards - ordinary objects in a decades ago. Meanwhile it is also responsible for producing the quantity of light, meaningless and immaterial messages by detrimenting the "quality of communication" or the tactility of media and emotions therewith.

Such a sense of missing was a starting point of this work. In the installation, a space is formed around a tree and a printer at the end of each branch drops out messages left by audiences. One can sprout message by writing it or feel a delicate sense of communication by picking up one of the messages by others. In this way Leaf: Autumn 2012 would like not only to generate interaction between the work and its audiences but to provide an experience of rapport among them. 

* HYBE _ Art Director - ChangMin HAN / Technical Advisor - SunWoong RYU
* OSF (Subsidiary Team of HYBE) _ Artist - Yeongho KIM, JaeWoong HWANG, Wan SUH

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