Airan Kang’s LED Digital Book Installation

Airan Kang composes book-shaped objects and explores the space of reflection. Born in Seoul, was educated there, meanwhile habitually read western philosophy such as Immanuel Kant during her adolescent period. After 1999, she began to use book-shaped object in her works in order to symbolize the knowledge and the individual history.Her book, molded in trasparent resin, into the shape of lifesized book, in which is installed LED light that emits gleams.

Recentry she has transferred her expression into the cyber space, presenting her series of digital book projects that interlace virtual- real worlds .For nearly a decade she has been both personifying and objectifying discourse and our concepts of knowledge by simulating libraries, bookstores, and reading rooms. Made with LED devices that emit colored lights programmed to continually change in brightness, hue and intensity, each “book” in this exhibition conflates material and ephemeral depictions of knowledge to realize the pluralistic spaces of our imagination.



via [artdaily]