Minji Kim (Unknown Kim)

CV & Artistic statement

2024
Acoustic Territories(The Shoemaker’s Guest)
Situated Listening Modes in an Ecological place
Song of Old Ones
An Ethnography of Chasing the Wind
Soundwalk: A Short Story of the Wind
Land, Ghost and the Rumors(2024)
Into the (re)wild(Essay)

2023
Anthropocene Sonnet
Land, Ghost and the Rumors(2023)
Re-shaping t/dunes(2023)

2022
My Neighbor K; The Peculiar Garden
Moving Air
Re-shaping t/dunes(2022)
Acoustic Territories(Fragile Lines)

2021
Inscription
Listening Performance: Flashback session / The other’s sonic experience; Bus22

2020
Aural Tectonics / Feedback Devices

2018
Fall in/out
Title: Inscription
Place: Mullae Art Factory, Seoul
Date: 31/10/2021
Format: Live coding performance



<Inscription> is a research and artistic journey that started with the question, "Can an act of listening exist independently from a regime of sign?" In this study, AI technology is used to mechanically synthesize speech sounds from different cultures, attempting to create a language that sounds like a language but means nothing.


Methodology:
  1. Translate Charles Cross's "Inscription" into six languages and record it (Korean, English, French, German, Chinese, Bengali).
  2. Classify and divide the recorded words in these six languages into columns and rows according to their meaning.
  3. Synthesize the words of each line using the nSynth program.


 Host: Down Qaurk Factory by Philip Liu
Sponsers:  Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture
*Performed part of <Mullae Live coding Competition>


Performance video: