Digital Flesh - Scar in Data
Sojung Bahng & Michael Lukaszuk
Sojung Bahng & Michael Lukaszuk. Digital Flesh - Scar in Data. video #1. Multimedia performance (live cinema, interactive music, augmented reality).
Sojung Bahng & Michael Lukaszuk. Digital Flesh - Scar in Data. video #2. Multimedia performance (live cinema, interactive music, augmented reality)
Digital Flesh – Scar in Data is a multimedia performance that reimagines the South Korean female body as a dynamic interface, utilizing live cinema, computer vision for sound, an interactive music system, and augmented reality (AR). By exploring the intersections of corporeality, technology, and digital representation, the work challenges conventional notions of identity, gender, and humanity’s connection with nature. Navigating the fluid boundaries between the physical and virtual, the piece interrogates rigid distinctions between interior and exterior, material and immaterial, and the ways in which difference is inscribed on and within the body. It transcends the limitations of purely digital representations, blurring the lines between human and machine, presence and absence, body and data.
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Somik is a project-based team composed of Sojung Bahng and Michael Lukaszuk. Sojung Bahng is an award-winning multidisciplinary artist, filmmaker, and VR researcher, currently working as an Assistant Professor at Queen's University in Canada. She explores cinematic media through digital technologies, reflecting on aesthetic and narrative experiences within cultural and philosophical contexts. Her work has been recognized at prestigious festivals and symposia worldwide. Michael Lukaszuk is a UmArts Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Media Arts at the Department of Creative Studies and the Department of Informatics. He is an electroacoustic music composer, media artist, and researcher specializing in algorithmic/generative approaches, spatial audio, and multimedia improvisation. His artistic research examines algorithmic media in culture and explores how emerging music technologies align with ideas of digital liveness in contemporary music.