Multimedia artist and professor of Contemporary Art at Konkuk University in Korea, Ja Young Ku brings us a "fingers-on" opportunity to diachronically interact and vicariously collaborate through her kinetically motivated project《Arrays_C》.This is how it works:First thing’s first, those of you with the ability to do so should visit the exhibition. Once on site, download and run the Arrays C application on your smartphone. Your phone screen should look the same as the large LED screen in front of you (image above). Use your fingertip to draw on the screen of your phone. The pixels of the large screen will begin to follow the movement of your fingertip, eventually displaying an enlarged duplicate of your drawing. Your drawing will be recorded in a server, appearing at different times on different days in the exhibition space, it will interact and intermingle with the recorded drawings of others, in turn influencing future drawings and creating new drawings. These results are interactively infinite.
Arrays in C programming signify variables that hold multiple elements of the same data type. And so, the title of Ku’s project directly addresses the very nature of its meaning as the large LED screen holds and displays the affective convergences of multiple finger-tip drawings.《Arrays_C》allows us to interact with others within an instant, and yet from a remote distance located right at the tips of our fingers.More information on the artist's other works and this exhibition here.Photos and footage: Art Center Nabi