실재공간과 가상공간의 구성 원리로서의 이미지 연구

초록

The recent rapid advancement and widespread adoption of media technology have endowed virtual spaces with a distinct sense of reality and presence, creating a new dimension of complex environments. Positioned within this paradigm shift, digital images are shedding their fixed materiality and demonstrating a fluid principle of form that is generated and dissipated in real time. The mechanism of the ephemeral generation of images, which endlessly recur and repeat within virtual space, is an independent form born from the close interplay between the immaterial properties of data produced by artificial intelligence algorithms and the aesthetics of the virtual-reality boundary in the post-digital era. This structure possesses perceptual characteristics that focus the viewer’s or audience’s awareness on the ephemeral phenomenon itself. The fluid visual flow and formal interface created by the bubbles and smoke in the video works induce sensory transitions, evoking psychological immersion and ontological reflection. This study, centered on an analysis of the artist’s work, identifies images in virtual space as a spatial compositional principle that orchestrates a new sensory system for the digital age and extends physical reality. This contributes to presenting a new formal direction for contemporary media art, where media technology and humans coexist.

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