Hair Ball (2022)
30 Sequential 3D Models, NFT Tokens
Hairballs that artist Jungwon Yoon couldn’t digest and vomited after working. These 3D models, vomited in this work, are composed of fragments of 3D models used in previous works. This artwork is rendered again by the Universal Rendering Studio, as if it were commissioned. Undigested debris clinging to the tongue. Grooming is a performative activity to maintain oneself. Humans groom and render the world from an anthropocentric perspective. The indigestible fragments of the world consumed in this process are rejected and vomited out of the anthropocentric world. The vomited hairballs are preserved or discarded as they are, retaining their unique form, unlike the pieces digested and reintegrated into the human world. The aim is to collect these hairballs rejected by the anthropocentric world. This artwork demonstrates what they would look like when rendered (subjected to anthropocentric post-processing). It is also a symbol revealing the artist’s contradictions and limitations.
▲ Hair ball (2022), Video Montage
Upon the suggestion of Art Collider (Korea National University of Arts Convergence Art Center), NFTs were created for this work. To avoid being absorbed into the capitalistic technological discourse of NFTs, 30 sequential ‘rendering’ processes were produced as images and then issued as NFTs. The more rendered the image, the higher the price was set, and all were uploaded to an NFT auction site. What will sell first? Through what paths will it be distributed? What consequences does the act of selling have on art? This began to function as a new social experiment on technology, rendering, and capitalism, raising these questions.
▲ Hair ball, social experiment (2022)
*This work was invited to the online showcase , a collaboration between the Ars Electronica Festival 2022 and the Korea National University of Arts Convergence Art Center.