Open Studio with Yaloo and Wooyoung Ro

Yaloo's chief collaborator, Korean designer and architect Wooyoung Ro, supports Yaloo in manifesting complex installations of substantial size.
Join Yaloo and Wooyoung Ro on Thursday, November 7, from 6:30-8:30 pm to get a sneak peek at the development of their latest collaboration. Both artists will describe their creative processes and how they work together.
Yaloo's newest project explores the development of and culminates in a multi-media art installation featuring experimental animated shorts about Shin In Ho, an 86-year-old female Korean KPOP idol who is also a notorious pirate of the East Asian Ocean. Her ship, named after her, sets the stage for a speculative maritime adventure.

Yaloo earned a BFA and MFA in video art from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She has been selected for fully funded international residencies such as Zer01ne and Asia Culture Center in Korea, the Fukuoka Asian Art Museum in Japan, Western Front and La Bande Video in Canada, the Headlands Art Center, and Bemis Studio Art Center in the USA. She was also awarded a Lyn Blumenthal Memorial Scholarship by Video Data Bank and won a Gold Prize in visual arts from the AHL Foundation in New York. Last year, she was part of a duo show at FACT Liverpool, UK.

Since the recent pandemic, Yaloo spent a significant time in Seoul. This experience helped her initialize Underwater Trilogy - Homo Paulinella the Lab, Pickled City, and Birthday Garden. All three chapters of the trilogy project capture a unique sense of contemporariness proper to the East Asian metropolis, where centuries of time and the dramatic pulses of our planet in the Anthropocene can be accessed in a small alley.

Through her work, she attempts to take a post-colonial, post-Western-centric, and post-human-centric approach to new media art by imparting a DIY production pipeline for immersive storytelling and interdisciplinary collaboration. There is rich creative potential to be appreciated in DIY computer graphics productions and immersive storytelling, especially when independent artists from different cultural, political, and social backgrounds take control of their creative agency. In the mainstream commercial output of digital media, individual artists perform tasks in a hyper-modernized Fordist process, where a thousand people divide their roles into small pieces. Like many independent media artists, Yaloo attempts to explore radically different visual possibilities through experimental problem-solving and to build her own production pipeline. Ultimately, Yaloo hopes to contribute to the diversity of the media languages in our everyday lives. Yaloo is currently a professor at the Experimental Animation Department at the California Institute of Arts.

Wooyoung Ro is a Seoul-based designer. After studying architecture, Ro has continued his work in installations and furniture design. Ro reinterprets the mechanical and functional principles and details—often unfamiliar in daily life—found in everything from small machines to construction sites, factory equipments, and urban infrastructure, into organized structures or furniture on a human scale.

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