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Taezoo Park
Taezoo Park was born in Korea.
He is digital artist based in Brooklyn NY whose work explores media and digital technologies which link together the ideal and real. Park pushes new artistic forms through his unique use of digital media, emphasizing the existent ‘character’ within a technology.
Education
Pratt Institute, New York,USA Class of 2012 | M.F.A. Digital Arts
Hong-Ik University, Korea | Class of 2007,B.F.A. Animation
Academic Exellence Scholarship 2005, 2004, 2003, 1999
EXHIBITIONS
2015 Gallery ANNEX, New York, NY
2015 New Museum’s IDEAS CITY, New York
2015 SPRING/BREAK Art Show | Skylight at Moynihan Station, New York, NY
2015 Digital Being: Open House at Gowanus eWaste Warehouse, Brooklyn, NY
2015 Beasticon - II | Mark Miller Gallery, New York, NY
2014 DUMBO Arts Festival, Brooklyn, NY ( Awarded “Best Project” )
2014 World Maker Faire | New York Hall of Science, Queens, NY
2014 GIAF, Governors Island, NY
2014 Northside Festival, Brooklyn, NY
2014 Contemporary Art Fair NYC, The Tunnel, New York
2014 CHI (Computer-Human Interaction Conference - Interactivity),Toronto, Canada
2014 Merge 2, CPR, Brooklyn, NY
2014 Scale, Olive Tjaden Gallery at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
2013 GIAF,Governors Island, NY
2013 Contemporary Art Fair NYC, Javits Center, New York, NY
2013 K-Town Festival, New York, NY
2013 World Maker Faire, New York Hall of Science, Queens, NY
2013 Merge 1, Triskelion Arts, Brooklyn, NY
2013 Northside Festival, Brooklyn, NY
2013 New Museum’s Ideas City Festival, Basilica of St. Patrick’s Old Cathedral, New York, NY
2013 Re:Incarnation,Harvestworks Gallery, New York, NY
2013 ReGeneration, New york Hall of Science, Queens, NY
2012 DUMBO Arts Festival,Brooklyn, NY
2012 World Maker Faire, New York Hall of Science, Queens, NY
2012 Constellation, TopTop Studios, Brooklyn, NY
2012 M.F.A. Thesis Show, Pratt Digital Arts Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2011 Northside Festival,The End, Greenpoint, Brooklyn, NY
RESIDENCY
2015 4head’s artist residency program | Governors Island, NY | 06/10~8/15/2015
2014/15 Lower East Side Ecology Center’s E-waste Warehouse | Brookly, NY | 11/15/2014 ~ 04/30/2015
2014 4head’s artist residency program | Governors Island, NY | 05/25~8/10/2014
ARTIST TALK
2015 “Artists and Social Scientists“, Cornell ILR Conference Center, New York, NY
2015 “Artists Talk on Art”,New York Public Library: Jefferson Market Library, New York, NY
2013 “How it works”, Pratt Manhattan Center, New York, NY
2013 “What Makes Us (In) Human”,Pratt Manhattan Center, New York, NY
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2015
Cornell University, Art Observed, ArtNet, Blouin Art Info, Art Nerd New York, Hyperallergic, Gothamist, Arts in Bushwick.
2014
Bedford and Bowery, DUMBO Arts Festival, Gothamist, Flavorpill, HYPERBIO, Beasticon-II, YAREAH,World Maker Faire
2013
ARTFIXdaily, BBC News, The Verge, Makezine, World Maker Faire, RHIZOME, Harvestworks.
2012
Making Toys, Koreadaily
ARTIST STATEMENT
“Digital Being” is a series of the kinetic installations created from detritus of broken and discarded
technologies based on the hypothetical existence of an invisible and formless creature born within the
circuits of technological garbage. This creature evolves and responds to its environment through an
atypical movement or specific interaction according to the machinery that it dominates.
Digital technology possesses unique intrinsic attributes to allow for this evolution to occur. According to
Nicholas Negroponte, MIT Media Lab founder and author of the book “Being Digital”, the digital consists
of bit where analogue consists of atoms. Bit is invisible, but it exists.
There are very simple digital codes in all electronics, such as televisions, speakers and computers.
Not only is the daily output of these electronics incalculable, but there is also an enormous number of
them are thrown away. Unless the memory chips or CPUs of the circuits are totally broken, they can
still operate by the command codes inside their bodies.
What if these command codes were accidentally and repeatedly combined, generating mutant codes and
errors among themselves? What if a code were to realize its consciousness during this continuous
operation? As digital technology is developing, the interactions among machines increases dramatically
and produces more e-waste, therefore raising the possibility. My artwork, “Digital Being,” is based on
this hypothesis.