이혜정 Lee Hye Jung (aka 이혜ㅈ Yi Heads )
Lee Hye Jung was born in late 1980’s in South Korea. She graduated from the Korea National University of Arts with a degree in Fine arts and has worked in Seoul. She is a media artist usually using live streaming on youtube and her own websites. She is trying to capture disappearing stories and find disappeared stories in daily life by using camera and live streaming as a tool for recording things before they are gone. She creates websites or Youtube channels for practices to collect the images and videos that she took and found.
Website: http://yiheads.wixsite.com/yiheads
Motherrainbow: https://yiheads.wixsite.com/motherrainbow
Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5Jr2HDdaoYLdRIPFl8Xe5A
Very deep night in bread (아주 깊은 밤 속 식빵) / duration 01:18:03 / 2016
Very deep night in bread was a collage video using documentary film and live streaming broadcasting that was a process looking for trail of outsider artistin Muakjae street in Doklipmun in Seoul. It was produced as an event collaborating with partner artist Ahnnlee Lee in 2016
Verydeepnightinbread: http://troueeeujubok.wixsite.com/troueeeujubok
Recently, in South Korea, more and more young artists are trying to use technological media and online channel actively in their works. But I think there is no theoretical and critical base to manage these practices and phenomenon. New media art in Korea seems to be expanding without proper theories or critiques.
Even though I couldn’t embrace all the works and artists, I think that I could write about specific new media art flow in Seoul by researching a young artist who uses live streaming and online channel.
I think YiHeads is very unique young artist in Seoul. She usually starts her project with new website and adds information and videos on it. Also she is really good at linking her work to work on her website. It is interesting for me how she arranges her moving and static images in online platform. I could find only few information about her on google, because she is still young artist. But I would like to discuss about her work within the context of multimedia. If I need more information, I’m willing to interview her via email.