sound-video installation, HD, stereo, color, 12:12min., 2024
Installation view / Open Studio Akademie der Künste, Berlin, 2024
Photo: Stephanie Walk
Photo: Stephanie Walk
The project Bune imagines the Bune mask(부네탈, Bune-tal), which traditionally symbolises a street woman or courtesan in Korean folk theatre, transformed into a symbol of near-future activism representing the voices of micro-tasking machine-learning workers. While deliberately failing in the role of a satirical “performance” or a political “manifesto”, the human-AI voice serves as feedback on the workers’ contributions. Structured into four acts, the sound work interspersed between the performances reconstructs interludes by extracting only the background noise from dozens of recorded voice data – noise that workers are tasked with filtering out.
Commissioned by Sound Art Korea, Altspace LOOP Seoul