Beepscape for Walla is a simulation of a forest in nature, gathering the beep sounds of old mechanical devices. Each electronic light-sound device has a light sensor on the circuit, it makes the sound of a grass bug made of beep responding to hand-drawing animation projected by a projector. It responds with a slightly different time by animation moving by an optical toy, as a result, this swarm of devices expresses a virtual forest visually and auditorily.
Our medium of this project is the 555 TIMER IC invented in the 1970s, a Phenakistoscope that is an optical toy and one of the origins of the projector, and a celluloid that is not used anymore in the industry of animation and cinema. First, an optical toy makes a moving and afterimage using celluloid, and second, the camera captures this afterimage. Third, the projector scatters this moving image on this swarm of electronic devices. An electronic device takes a light, makes unique pulses, and makes a sound of beep such as a bird or an insect. These devices function as a medium, forming one structure, because of its working. We want to take a real working process that usually is hidden in our technological society to an area of appreciation.
Beepscape for Walla, 2023, Mixed media, 400x600x300cm, S-Factory(ZER01NE), Seoul
Artist: Honam Kim, Kisoon Eom, Haejin Jung
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