Hye Yeon Nam

particle forest

jul 1 - 27, 2025

FIRST WEDNESDAY OPENING: jul 2, FROM 6 - 9PM

ARTICULATE ARTIST TALK: SUNDAY, jul 6, AT 4PM.

NORMAL GALLERY HOURS: TUE - SUN, 12PM - 6PM

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Hye Yeon Nam is a digital media artist working on interactive installations and performance video. Through her art, which she approaches as research, Nam attempts to address social issues she sees as closely tied to her cultural identity, relationships, and responsibilities. As an immigrant to America from South Korea, she is acutely aware of her identity being caught between these two cultures. While struggling to adjust to the culture of her adopted home, she has sought to illustrate her “resistance against the conformities of society by showing variable perspectives and physical dissonance.”

Particle Forest explores the vitality and vibrancy of trees using point cloud scanned data, interactive particle effects, and 3d printed trees.  This project aims to preserve and share the digital heritage of Louisiana’s magnificent landscapes through the art project.  Particle Forest presents how machine vision sees and unsees our cultural landscapes, rendering material traces immaterial, then experimented with how these immaterial virtual artifacts can be rematerialized through digital simulation and fabrication.  This project investigates the authoritative, yet imperfect nature of data captured through the lens of machine vision, asking how algorithms mediate meaning.  Trees are always all around us so people tend to take it for granted. Through Particle Forest, I hope my audience feels closer to those heritage trees and understand our life living together with them. The data is archived online at https://xyz.cct.lsu.edu/ so that future generations can learn about these landscapes.

 

Heritage Trees is a collaboration with Brendan Harmon and was made with assistance from Carlos Roman, Joseph Brooks, Julie Whitbeck, William Reinhardt, Huan Guo, and Javier Zamora. This work was supported by the XYZ Collective, National Park Service, Architecture Research Centers Consortium, and Louisiana State University.” - Nam

This exhibition is presented alongside the latest works from April Hammock, Marcus McAllister, & Nonney Oddlokken. All works from these artists are on view, free of charge, during regular gallery hours (12 - 6 p.m., Tue - Sun) from July 1 - 27, 2025.

works on view