Laura Hyunjhee Kim

  • LAURA HYUNJHEE KIM
  • Multimedia
    • SEICA Human Interaction Labs
    • Living Lab
    • Close Encounters
    • Hyper Future Wave Machine (HFWM)
    • LOVE NETWORKS LOVE
    • (Modern)Formations
    • Blackbox Monodramas
    • Type 3 Toy
    • Marvelous Miramol
    • Sweet Spring Attract Wolves
    • Holiday Videos
    • Rectangle Interventions >
      • TVDEADTV
      • Consume Like Everyone Is Watching
      • 📷: #tourist I 2016
      • Click Here I 2014
      • #Selfie I 2014 - 2015
  • Video
  • Performance
  • Collaboration
  • Writing
    • Entering the Blobosphere: A Musing on Blobs
    • Towards a Feelosophy of Art
    • The Robot Does Not Exist: Remixing Psychic Automatism and Artificial Creative Intelligence
    • Trash Queen Pulverator
    • Fatal Error: Artificial Creative Intelligence (ACI)
    • Remixing Persona: An Imaginary Digital Media Object from the Onto-Tales of the Digital Afterlife
    • An Annotated Portfolio of Designed-Designers
  • ABOUT

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Hyper Future Wave Machine (HFWM)

The project was realized during a six-month-long residency at the Internet Archive in 2017.
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The Hyper Future Wave Machine is a project that positions the years 2017 and beyond as a speculative future based on audiovisual ephemera published in the years 1987 to 1991. Born in the late ’80s, I wanted to explore the technological advancements and innovations that were popularized during the nascent years of the World Wide Web. Utilizing the Internet Archive as a time machine, I searched through the archived commercial and educational media representations of networked technology, personalized computers, and information systems. Often hyperbolic with a heightened emphasis on speed, power, and the future, slogans from those past years are still relevant and surface aspirations that continue to introduce the “next big thing” to the present generation: “REALIZE THE FUTURE, YOU ALREADY LIVE IN.”
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​As the title of the project suggests, the work revolves around an imaginary media access system, namely the Hyper Future Wave Machine (HFWM). Described as a three-way-cross-hybrid existing/nonexistent/and-yet-to-exist metaphysical machine, the concept came from contemplating on data portability and the trajectory of human-machine interface technology that seamlessly minimizes physical interaction. From buttons to touchscreens to speech, would the next ubiquitously applied interface operate using some sort of nonverbal neural command?
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​The project consists of 4 video and photo works that introduce various aspects of the HFWM:


Exploration
Experience
Research
Media Wave Export​
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VIDEO


​Hyper Future Wave Machine (HFWM): The Exploration 
​Video (Single-Channel), Sound by Sean Stevens, 00:04:00, 2017
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Full script for video can be found HERE. 
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A video introducing the HFWM prototype and its possibilities
00:00:44 - 00:01:44 (1min excerpt)

Hyper Future Wave Machine (HFWM): The Experience
​Video (Single-Channel), Sound by Chris Corrente, 00:02:00, 2017
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A video experiencing the HFWM-30 prototype
00:00:25 - 00:00:55 (1min excerpt)​

Hyper Future Wave Machine (HFWM): The Research
​Video (Single-Channel), Sound by Chris Corrente, 00:02:02, 2017
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​A video showing individuals interacting and researching the exported media waves generated by the HFWM prototype
00:00:34 - 00:01:04 (1min excerpt)

Hyper Future Wave Machine (HFWM): Media Wave Export
​Video (Single-Channel), Sound by Slom, 00:01:48, 2017
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1min 48sec media wave exported by the HFWM - a super cut video montage of 1987-1991 commercial and educational media representations of computers, augmented intelligence and the future of networked living. ​​


​PHOTO

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Achieve the Power and Speed of Tomorrow’s Technology. Today.
Digital Photo, 18” x 24”, 2017
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A New Legend Begins
Digital Photo, 18” x 24”, 2017
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No Longer Science Fiction
Digital Photo, 18” x 24”, 2017
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Turbo Charge Your Spectrum
Digital Photo, 18” x 24”, 2017
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Dream Machine
​Digital Panorama Photo, 2017











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What next? That is the question...
You can find more projects HERE

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