free-soil.org - selection of projects

Jang-Won Lee
2-46 Mapo-ku, Sangam-dong
Seoul, 121-270
Korea
http://www.voltbolt.com/
http://www.leoalmanac.org/gallery/locative/suntracer/index.htm

sunTracer is a long-term, ongoing project spanning more than a decade. To be installed across the continents and the oceans, sunTracer chases and captures the movement of Sun 24 hours, and to be more accurate, it chases the altitude and azimuth of sun movement calculated through GPS coordinates of a given location.

The realtime images of different sites are transmitted via network to show human symbol of longevity and power - sun - but also to depict historical, cultural, seasonal, and even artificial landscape of the location.

A multi-channeled view centered around the icon of Nature tellingly conveys the diversities as well as the poetic porosity in human activities. This networked landscape, which is the combined ‘capture’ of different but simultaneously the same scenes of the earth, is a portrait of eternity and transience of a temporal and spatial existence.

The first phase of the project started in 2003, and aims to develop hardware and software and to experiment with the prototype of installation. Installed in multiple locations in Korea (so far at two observatories and one at a gallery) during the exhibition period from 2003 and onward, sunTracer captured and transmitted images of sky and subtle changes of the nature.

Continuing in-depth experimentation with scientist, curator, environmentalist, and anthropologist, sunTracer plans to build up its archive (STA: Sun Tracer Archive) as a permanent public art installation.