I mainly work on the video. The fictional narrative is central to my work. I develop speculative narratives reflecting and distorting contemporary situations around me and simulating the future. My works explore the social tensions around my identity, concerning the resident of digital neoliberalism and an immigrant simultaneously. It describes anxieties about survival and respect, which arise in between.
I write the narratives to rewire ideas about shaping human consciousness of algorithms, aversion to heterogeneity, and nationalism. The narratives are written in the form of science fiction, such as future scenarios and stories that transcend the time of the human species.
The inspirations for my works include traditional Asian philosophy, Korean folktales, internet culture, and science fiction literature. In my video, the main characters, both human and non-human, appear as part of nature rather than human civilisation, reflecting traditional Asian thought. The background of the video is a mythical, animistic natural world. It is created in 3D rendering to visualise a fictional world and simulate a digital virtual world.
While proposing the stories of beings living in non-human/non-present/
non-temporality, I explore non-mainstream identities from various perspectives. And I propose hypotheses about the possibility of a new future with it.
2017–2020
MA in Fine Arts, ZHdK (Zurich University of the Arts), Zurich
2010
MA in Design, Domus Academy, Milan
2007–2009
Product Design, SADI, Seoul
2001–2006
BA in Computer Engineering, Hongik university, Seoul
2022
Prix Photoforum 22, selected artist
2022
Swiss Interactive Session, Geneva International Film Festival
"Collective Imaginary Studies", one gee in fog, Geneva (2023)
"PRIX PHOTOFORUM 2022", Kunsthaus Pasquart, Biel (2022)
"We are so many here - Regionale 23", Kunsthalle Basel, Basel (2022)
"Internal Clocks", Culterim Gallery, Berlin (2022)
“Wired Magic”, HEK, Basel (2021)
“MATERIAL WORLDS – STORIED MATTER”, E-WERK, Freiburg (2021)
“BE THERE” design festival, Hongkong (2019)
“Molecular and Love”, Galerie 1 in Toni-Areal, Zurich (2018)
2023
Work grant, Fachausschuss Film und Medienkunst BS/BL, Basel
2023
The Whole Technoshamanic Catalog, Umbigo magazine, Portugal
2022
WAVES program by Kunsthalle Zurich, Zurich
2021–2022
What’s Next_Studio, Zurich
2022
Atmosphäre, Design und Wohlbefinden (part 2), CoCreate course, HGK, Basel
2022
Atmosphäre, Design und Wohlbefinden (part 1), CoCreate course, HGK, Basel
2018–
Co-founder & Creative director of media™, Basel, Switzerland
2012–2015
UX design consultant, FRUM
2011–2012
Product designer, HANSKIN
For video + portfolio requests or any other inquiries, please contact me.
jhy.basic@gmail.com
