Delivery Dancer’s Sphere / Ayoung Kim (KR)
New Animation Art + ARS ELECTRONICA Golden Nica 2023
Delivery Dancer’s Sphere
Artist : Ayoung Kim (KR)
According to the possible world theory, this world is one of the innumerable worlds, and according to the logic of innumerable worlds, it is possible that there are two or more perfectly identical worlds. In this same world, even individual members may or may not be perfectly identical.
Ernst Mo is a rider affiliated with the company Delivery Dancer, a delivery platform. Depending on the call received through the operation of Dancemaster, the AI algorithm of the Delivery Dancer app, Ernst Mo rides through the spots including A, B, C, D, E, in Seoul, following Dancemaster’s navigation system. It calculates the shortest distance from the starting point to the destination and informs Ernst Mo of the elegantly embroidered navigation lines. The infinitely received delivery calls and infinitely generated delivery paths are like a maze.
From moment to moment, Ernst Mo arrives at the points at which another possible world, perfectly identical to her own world, leaks. The name of the opposite entity that appears to be perfectly identical to herself is En Storm (an anagram of Monster). The main character and the opposing entity show various aspects of the relationship, such as antagonism, compassion, and affection, which cannot coexist in the same space and time. These are the states of affairs of possible worlds. These are the ways in which two entities may exist (the ways they could be), and furthermore the ways they could relate to each other.
This world seems like a world where the logic of causality does not work well. A character who died in the previous scene appears in the next scene. In this way, the world is rebuilt from moment to moment, different. Montage, a unique method of video editing that has been developed to suture shots and smooth artificial time, is used in this work to disrupt causality, and the magic begins where the syntax breaks down. (A variant of syntax is a kind of epistemic earthquake.)
This work incorporates several laws of classical physics: Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle, Fermat’s principle of least time, Hamilton’s principle of least action.
ref.:
https://calls.ars.electronica.art/2023/prix/winners/7255/
http://ayoungkim.com/wp/3col/delivery-dancers-sphere-2022
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