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Tercera Edición - 2004

Cuarta Edición - 2005

:: País: Corea y Tailandia / Bangkok

Institution: Lecturer at Communication Design Program at
School of Architecture & Design,
King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi (KMUTT),
Bangkok, Thailand.

Professional Level: Artist / Lecturer

Title: Feed

Sub-category: Video

Duration: 09 minutes18 Seconds
      
Year of production: 31 December 2004

Country of production: Korea/Thailand

Programs used: Adobe After Effects, Sound Studio, Apple Logic

Original format: MiniDV (PAL)

Artist’s statement:

“Feed” is Jung-Chul Hur’s continuation of his early piece “Frantic”.  Like in “Frantic”, the footage in this film comes from the Thai coastal town of Bang Poo. The place is well-known for having an abundance of migratory gulls and terns. It is also a popular domestic tourist destination famous for its seafood restaurants.
The film begins with a massive bombardment of digitally modified and duplicated images layered into a kaleidoscopic whole. The scenes then gradually plunge towards the boundaries of readability.
Sounds were recorded simultaneously with the images and then slightly modified. Voices of birds, and people in a restaurant blend together synchronizing with the kaleidoscopic imagery. Thai viewers will understand that the majority of voices in the film are of children shouting mostly about food as if they were in a feeding frenzy, much like the birds. 

The artist would say that “Feed” is a meditative piece, but it is interesting to observe how this natural phenomenon is both aggressive and unsettling.

Jung-Chul HUR was born in Masan, Korea in 1972. He did his B.F.A in Industrial Design at the Konkuk University in Korea from where he went on to complete an M.A. in Visual Communication at the Kent Institute of Art & Design in the UK between 1999 and 2000. His work, which encompasses video, animation and sound, has been shown at international festivals in Asia, Europe, and South and North America.