신생공NEWBORN SPACE

Rapid advancements in media technology have blurred the boundaries between physical reality and virtual space, fundamentally reshaping how we enjoy and experience space. Contemporary individuals, accustomed to the infinite variations of digital space, demand new stimuli and experiences even within essentially fixed physical environments. However, these fixed physical forms face limitations in keeping pace with the rapidly changing speed of sensory experience. Amidst this flow of the times, 'Newborn' seeks sustainable values that allow physical space to be continuously enjoyed.

Project 'Newborn Space' is an experiment that predicts and implements future cultural patterns through contemporary technology. It is an attempt to grant a new form—befitting current and future technological environments—to things destined to disappear due to technology, thereby allowing their existence to continue. In this context, 'Newborn Space' moves away from the vision that has dominated the basis of spatial perception and summons the marginalized 'auditory sense' to the center. While vision clearly separates and defines objects, sound flows without boundaries, permeating and filling the gaps of space, functioning as an invisible medium. Auditory information, which we perceive but often do not consciously register, indirectly conveys information about a space. This project brings these auditory layers to the forefront, attempting 'Spatial Upcycling' to endow familiar physical spaces with invisible value. Instead of physical reconstruction, it adopts a method of collecting and reinterpreting sound information inherent in a location to overlay layers of invisible experience onto the space. This is a complete paradigm shift that subverts solid Ocularcentrism and allows space to be sensed anew through audible vibrations rather than visible forms.

'Newborn Space' is not a fixed entity but an organic landscape that is constantly created and extinguished according to sound waves. Artificial intelligence, having learned 360-degree audiovisual data collected from various locations, constructs a virtual space solely based on input sound, with visual information eliminated. The AI in the work functions beyond a simple computing device; it acts as a 'Synesthetic Narrator' that senses forests, oceans, and unknown spaces within the collected data. The process where cold urban noise is reduced to images of dense forests, while the flowing sounds of nature transition into dry mechanical forms, provides the audience with an intense synesthetic expansion. Paradoxically, this allows contemporaries accustomed to the infinite variations of digital space to experience the most immersive 'The Real' within a physical space.

Through a landscape of sound that rejects fixed forms and flows endlessly, 'Newborn Space' makes the audience perceive familiar daily spaces as unfamiliar and rediscover the infinite possibilities inherent within them. Standing before a space where auditory senses interpret and AI recreates—beyond the physical reality defined by vision—the audience comes to gaze at the flip side of the physical world we stand on. This is an artistic performance that goes beyond simple aesthetic appreciation of space, presenting a new existential meaning for physical space in response to the expanding digital realm, and fundamentally rethinking the way humans relate to space.