dul (born Lee Jiwon in 2000, Seoul) is a new media artist based in Seoul who works to resolve the temporal gap between technology and culture through art. As a new media artist, he actively utilizes technology while grounding his work in a vague anxiety about the changes technology brings and the resulting losses.
dul seeks to sustain things at risk of disappearing due to technological advancement—ecosystems, spaces, and languages—by granting them new inevitable forms that align with present and future technological environments. From this perspective, under the project 'Newborn신생', he artistically explores the transitional states created when technology intervenes in existing things and the imperfections inherent within them.
Project 'Newborn신생', which intensified in 2023, predicts and implements future cultural landscapes using contemporary technology. Through the series 'Newborn Space신생공', which subverts vision-centered perception systems and summons hearing to the center of sensation, and 'Newborn Language신생어', which seeks to resolve the formal discrepancy of language that remains confined to flatness despite the medium's expansion into three dimensions, he artistically visualizes the transitional imperfections inherent in familiar things.
CURRENT EXHIBITION
CURRENT PROJECT
NEWBORN SPACE
The 'Newborn Space' project is an artistic endeavor aiming to subvert the rigid, vision-centric perception of space and rediscover its essence through the historically marginalized sense of hearing.
This project brings the auditory layers of space—which we perceive but often fail to consciously register—to the foreground, visualizing the flip side of space as perceived by sound rather than its visible physical form. In the current era, where engagement in digital and virtual spaces has surged post-pandemic, attributing invisible auditory value to physical space serves as a form of 'spatial upcycling' that reinterprets and adds value to familiar everyday environments. Unlike physical space which maintains a fixed form, the fluid space of 'Newborn Space' constantly changes and generates in response to ambient sounds. This offers the audience a synesthetic expansion beyond the visual, providing an opportunity to rethink the very concept of space itself.
NEWBORN LANGUAGE
The 'Newborn Language' project proposes and explores a new form of language—'stereoscopic language'—that aligns with the rapidly changing technological environment and the consequently expanded concept of space.
Historically, human language has been bound by physical limitations, persisting in forms constrained to 'writing' recorded on a 2D plane or 'speech' originating from a single fixed point. However, as the dimensionality of media expands into 3D through the widespread adoption of Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR), and spatial audio technologies, the language used within these realms has reached a juncture where it must inevitably acquire stereoscopic properties. Language that secures physical depth and spatiality enables the expression of subtle emotions and complex layers of meaning that flattened text or monotonous voice cannot convey; this signifies a revolutionary expansion of language's essential functions—recording and transmitting information—going beyond a mere shift in communication tools. Centered on the three axes of 'Speech,' 'Writing,' and 'Conversation,' this project establishes a new articulation system that imbues meaning into the trajectory of sound using AI trained on multilingual data and spatial audio, and researches hardware capable of physically realizing characters floating in 3D space, thereby experimenting with the tangible possibilities of a future language where technology and culture converge.