2010年11月11日星期四

another example of technologised body


LED Eyelash by Soomi Park


LED Eyelash is a clever product that speaks to many Asian women's desire for bigger eyes. It features an inclination sensor with mercury to turn on and/or off. The sensor can perceive the movements of the pupil in the eyes and eyelids. If someone wears it and moves her head, LED Eyelash will flicker following the movement.


 Soomi Park is a multimedia artist living and orking in Seoul. She received her BFA from Sookmyoung Women's University and MA in digital design from IDAS(international design school for advanced studies) Hong-lk University in Seoul, Korea.Most of her art works engage with her increasing fascination and banalization  of plastic surgery not only in Korea but also in many countries around the world.Her artwork has featured in many online/offline venues all over the world.

Her artwork has been acclaimed by international pundits for its ingenuity. Her LED Eyelash won her Honorary Mention under the section of Interactive Art at PRIX Ars Electronica 2008. The juries said, "Soomi Park's LED Eyelash is in a category of its own-glittering, yet profound,  yet extraordinarily beautiful and strange, and dealing with important issues of gender and identity with a disarming and charming sense of playfulness.".
Her artwork is a piece  of art as well as a design product that can be used in our daily life. Thus it’s a good example of the idea of human living with technology with joy and happiness. What’s more, she also make a good use of technology to reflect the environment and culture in a fresh way that catches peoples eye. 
thus, although technology has already changed our life in many aspects as well as brings the difficulty of identify the boundary of machine and bodies, it's also many positive example of how artists deal with machins.

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