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Upcoming Exhibition
Tree Rings
A solo show by Yoon Chung Han
Location: Gallery 479, building 479, UCSB
Date: Monday, January 30th - Friday, February, 3rd 2012 10:00am - 5:00pm
Opening Reception: Monday, January 30th 5:00pm - 7:00pm
Light refreshments and wine will be served.
"Tree Rings" explores sound’s organic essence by visualizing it’s time dimension as a spiral series of tree rings, modulated by urban soundscape transcribed to waveforms. This piece highlights the natural harmonic beauty of sound - when used outdoors, the sounds of our renovated urban cityscape can be used to regenerate a relic of the natural landscape that was destroyed so that it could exist. By showing our individual and societal voices and sounds in tree ring form, we stay true to the spirit of the rings, preserving the imagery for a more modern age.
"Tree rings" contain real trees’ narratives - their history, time and space in spiral timeline shapes. Trees provide beauty and inspiration, they help free oxygen to keep us breathing, yet we destroy them for our benefit regularly, using their body parts for housing, cardboard, even for temporary data storage needs. Trees invented the first ‘ring memory’, many thousands of years before humans discovered electricity.
In this exhibition, a tree trunk built from stacks of sound tree rings is situated, and audience can explore the diverse stories and sounds by touching the top tree ring of the tree trunk. Along with the interactive installation, there are certain captured moments of tree rings etched on the wood and printed on the paper.
More information:
Gallery 479, UCSB MAT
Past Exhibitions
Design Korea 2011
"Sound Tree Rings" was exhibited in Design Korea 2011 - Next Generation Design Leader section
Date : October 20-23, 2011
COEX, Korea.
Soundwalk 2011
"Jellyfish" was exhibited in Soundwalk 2011.
Date : Saturday October 9th, 5-10pm, 2011
East Village Arts District Downtown Long Beach
INDAF(Incheon International Digital Art Festival) 2010
"One" was exhibited as a part of group exhibitions, "Sense Senses" in INDAF 2010
Opening Reception : September 1st 6pm-9pm, 2010
September 1st-30th, 2010
Tomorrow City, Incheon, South Korea
"Hello World" MFA Thesis Show
New Wight Gallery, Broad Art Center, UCLA
240 Charles E. Young Drive, Los Angeles, CA
Opening Reception : May 13th 5pm, 2010
May 13th-25th, 2010
AFK 2nd Grad Exhibition in UCLA D|MA
New Wight Gallery, Broad Art Center, UCLA
240 Charles E. Young Drive, Los Angeles, CA
Opening Reception : October 15th 5pm, 2009
October 15th-25th, 2009
Collider: Interactivity and New Media
The Emily Davis Gallery, Myers School of Art, The University of Akron, 150 East. Exchange St. akron, OH
Opening Reception – 4pm Monday, Sept 21, 2009
The Fragments of Sound
Sep 9-15,2009 (Opening : Sep 9th 5pm)
"One" : Yoon Chung Han's selected works with Erick Oh's animation
Videotage, No. 13, Cattle Depot Artist Village, 63 Ma Tau Kok Rd. To Kwa Wan, Kowloon, HK
August 25-28,2009 (Opening : Aug 25th 7pm)
Siggraph 2009 Art Gallery
Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, New Orleans, USA
"Five" : Korean Young Artists
Korean Culture Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA
July 10-24, 2009
4th Take away Festival of DIY Media 2009
Dana Centre in London Science Museum, London, UK
May 19-30, 2009
Phonophobia
Grad gallery, EDA, UCLA Design Media arts
May 6-7, 2009