I mainly work on the video. My work explores the minor feelings and social tensions around my identity as a resident of digital neoliberalism and an immigrant. It depicts the anxiety about survival and respect that arises in between and explores whether I still have subjectivity.
Inspired by anthropology, bio-philosophy, Asian primitive religions, and future scenarios, my work depicts the clash between images of technology, nature, and nationalism. Speculative writing becomes the key to imagining other futures. 3D rendering and game engines are used to simulate an alternative world.
My narrative rewires ideas about shaping human consciousness by technology, and aversion to heterogeneity. It often transcends the time of the human species. While proposing stories of beings living in non-human/non-present/non-temporality, I explore non-mainstream identities. And I formulate hypotheses about the possibility of an other future with it.
2017–2020
MA in Fine Arts, ZHdK (Zurich University of the Arts), Zurich
2010
MA in Design, Domus Academy, Milan
2007–2009
Product Design, SADI, Seoul
2001–2006
BA in Computer Engineering, Hongik university, Seoul
2022
Prix Photoforum 22, selected artist
2022
Swiss Interactive Session, Geneva International Film Festival
"Volume of air trapped between the earth and the sky", HAAM Gallery, Punjab (2024)
"Porvir", quarta a sabado, Sao Paulo (2024)
"Collective Imaginary Studies", one gee in fog, Geneva (2023)
"PRIX PHOTOFORUM 2022", Kunsthaus Pasquart, Biel (2022)
"We are so many here - Regionale 23", Kunsthalle Basel, Basel (2022)
"Internal Clocks", Culterim Gallery, Berlin (2022)
“Wired Magic”, HEK, Basel (2021)
“MATERIAL WORLDS – STORIED MATTER”, E-WERK, Freiburg (2021)
“BE THERE” design festival, Hongkong (2019)
“Molecular and Love”, Galerie 1 in Toni-Areal, Zurich (2018)
2023
Work grant, Fachausschuss Film und Medienkunst BS/BL, Basel
2024
Piscina #1 – Porvir, Piscina art magazine, Sao Paulo
2024
IN A NUTSHELL, Z-KUBATOR WHAT’S UP, Zurich
2023
The Whole Technoshamanic Catalog, Umbigo magazine, Portugal
2022
WAVES program by Kunsthalle Zurich, Zurich
2021–2022
What’s Next_Studio, Zurich
2022
Atmosphäre, Design und Wohlbefinden (part 2), CoCreate course, HGK, Basel
2022
Atmosphäre, Design und Wohlbefinden (part 1), CoCreate course, HGK, Basel
2018–
Co-founder & Creative director of media™, Basel, Switzerland
2012–2015
UX design consultant, FRUM
2011–2012
Product designer, HANSKIN
For video + portfolio requests or any other inquiries, please contact me.
jhy.basic@gmail.com
