Air and Dream collaborated with a fusion group Bibimbap* Team is an interactive video installation which digitalized forms of clouds that were created through a painstaking process of cutting a thin sheet of Hanji into tiny pieces and pasting them in layer. It has three characteristics as follows. First, particles of water vapor that formed clouds on a canvas were interpreted to be pixel blocs on a display screen. Second, movements or changes in color tones of particles were shown based on an algorithm. Third, viewers were allowed to interact with the installation using a touch screen. Based on this system, each tiny piece of Korean paper on a canvas was converted into a pixel bloc—the minimum size of particle in a video on a flat screen. As pixels of tiny particles gathered and scattered, clouds in an incessant changes finally came into a moving image. Air and Dream installation merged layers of space and time with a flat screen. This is an example of what I call “Digilog.” Whether in analogue or digital style, everything is created through human being’s own hands. Via Air and Dream, I hoped that a relationship among human being, technology, and nature could reach reconciliation based on a principle of “non-duality (不二)” through a crossover between reality and the virtual reality. *
* Bibimbap refers to a Korean rice dish with mixed vegetables.