User:Han


 * Name: Han Choi
 * E-mail: hansnine@hotmail.com
 * Website: myhome.naver.com/hansnine
 * MSN: hansnine@hotmail.com
 * Phone: 415-238-3237

Project 1 -- Title 'Seenae'
My project is 'the damaged'.

I've had mini-dv tapes which were recorded the little girl, Seenae by myself. She was suffering from cancel without no cure. Her father had denided her to see a doctor because he had wrong belief that God might cure his daughter by his praying not the physician's medicine.

The time when I met her was that I was working as a assistant director for documentary production team of Korean Broadcasting. I filmed her situation for my broadcasting documentary which was similar like 60 minutes in U.S. After on aired, this documentary affected to Korean a lot. Everybody who watched this documentary had angry about the father's abuseness and wrong belief. Because the documentaty was really succeful, I felt great like I did do amazing thing as a documentarian.

After all, everything seemed fine. Seenae went to see a doctor for meditation. The father went to jail. The other family members, the mother and brothers, went to public shelter hiding from father's abuseness. I came back to my another work to do.

Couple of month later, everything was changed. The father had killed himself after coming out of jail. Seenae was dead either, missing her family. However, nobody knew about the tragedy. The moment I knew the changed reality around her was my turning point as a broadcasting director. I felt myself that I did wrong and I had broken one family totally.

After then, I have threw away the tapes and store the tapes in dark humid space. 8 years later, 2005, I reopened the tape box here to remember Seenae's life not as a commercial broadcasting guy but as an artist. I collected the damaged visual and sound of all tapes remembering both my damaged memory and Seenae's humble life to recorrect the relationship me with Seenae.

I hope that this project will be a beginning point for me as an artist reborn to tell something good.

Reaearch
Installation   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Installation_art

Media art      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_media_art

Namjun Paik http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nam_June_Paik

Korean Art    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contemporary_culture_of_South_Korea

Submission

 * Diego Rivera Gallery

800 chestnut sfai campus. Show time from 29th. Nov till 4th. Dec


 * PDX experimental video festival

The PDX experimental video festival is a five-day exposition taking place April 26-30, 2006 that is dedicated to showcasing new innovative film and video. Focusing on non-narrative works that go against the grain of mainstream entertainment.


 * Carolina film and video festival

Experimental Film and video festival for student film maker and independent film maker.

What experience do you have with sound software and what kind?
not much...knowledge about sound tool in final cut pro also, recording skill with camcorder.

What experience do you have with programming and what kind?
nope

What do you know and how interested are you in Free Culture, Open Source, and Programming?
I like free and open but, don't like programming....^^

What kind of experience with building speakers and external sound hardware do you have?
I have pretty good skill to build speakers,connectors and lines

What type of installations / performances have you done?
Video installaton and single channel video stuff,,,,,keep trying to perform something.

Which aspects of audio interest you? (recording / performance / sound installations...)
Now, I have interested in recreating sound...I mean some sort of recreating and relocating...--;;

Do you play an instrument and what is the instrument(s)?
I play my body only.

What do you want to get out of this class?
I want to get the definition, what the meaning of sound is for me.

Do you take another sound class this semester and what is its name?
No...

What kind of music are you into? Art, pop, whatever...
Usually,,,classics!!

What field trips would you like? (studio)
Whatever Jon likes...

What is your secret weapon?
Experience with many different people and culture,,,^^