Jiwon Jang

About

Jiwon (b.1999) is a visual artist and sculptor based in London and Seoul. She graduated in 2023 with a BFA in Woodworking & Furniture Design and Visual Communication Design from Hongik University in Seoul. She revels in transcending the boundaries between 2D and 3D realms, exploring the intricate relationship between digital and physical domains. She has been conducting research related to semiotics, artificial intelligence, AI perception, machine learning and human cognition. She translates her thoughts into a diverse array of mediums such as installations, sculptures, crafts, media art, and graphics. 

Recently, Jiwon participated in projects such as the ‘Map/making project’, a collaboration between visual artists, musicians/composers, and choreographers/dancers and ‘In Loco Parentis’, hosted by the Culture Yard in Denmark, and funded by the European Digital Deal / Creative Europe through ARS Electronica. She has exhibited her work in various locations across London, including Orleans House Gallery, Silk Street Theatre (Barbican Centre), and Corner 7 Camden. Additionally, her work was featured among the top 5 works at the RCA 2024 show, with articles published in It’s Nice That. She also has several exhibition experience in Seoul and has worked as a furniture designer and graphic designer.

Her project “The Latent Space” delves into how artificial intelligence perceives chairs and how humans might adopt AI’s processing methods for new insights. It involves changing material, analysing chairs from different angles, breaking them down into individual elements and facets, extruding them and reconstructing them into new structures. The reconfigured chair, generated through an algorithmic process that combines human intelligence and creativity, represents a departure from artificial intelligence, showcasing a different realm of human ingenuity using a form of de-computational intelligence.

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