Ciberiver
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Single-channel video, 4’39’’
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2021
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Single-channel video, 20’26’’
2024
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​'Cyberiver' explores the give-and-take dynamic of social media. People create various digital profiles on the internet, turning their lives into data in exchange for convenience and self-identity. However, while we continuously upload information, the internet is simultaneously "downloading" our data. This suggests that a backlash may be imminent. Like an invisible hand, this process seeps everywhere—into transaction records, satellite tracking, and even private chat rooms—collecting both personal and non-personal data. Over time, this stream of data becomes an uncontrollable river, evolving into the largest digital flow of the 21st century, with its control resting in unknown hands.
Through 'Cyberiver', the author stirs the imagination around social media's hidden networks and conspiracies, prompting us to question what it means to be an individual in the context of social media.
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A story about a woman who seeks the help of a spiritual medium because her hair is tangled (symbolizing visible anxiety). During the process, she experiences a ritual where eating human brains is believed to supplement her own brain, leading her to a spiritual cabin where she connects to the virtual world. Pushed by an electronic medium, she enters the virtual world, accidentally falls into the cyber river, and is electrocuted by an electric eel. She returns to the spiritual cabin and finally uses a blow dart made from her own spit to burst the medium's balloon.