2022 Changwon
Sculpture Biennale

[Alien] Star Dust: Signal to Noise is an immersive projection / AR artwork that focuses on seven meteorites falling on every continent on our Planet Earth. Here at the Seongsan Art Hall, audiences can experience the site-specific version of the Chelyabinsk meteor that fell in 2013 in Chelyabinsk, Russia.
Star dust is as small as 1/10th of a width of a human hair but 70-100 tons of this extra-terrestrial material falls on Earth every single day. Finding and observing these micrometeorites has been a fascination for scientists since the invention of the microscope. When we look for star dust, we mostly find a mix of pollution particles that could be seen as a portrait of our globalized society. Most go about their daily life without being aware or ever thinking about the extraterrestrial dusts that could be on their kitchen floor, right here on Earth. The alien signal is lost in the human noise. Audio is a critical part of [Alien] Star Dust: Signal to Noise -- layers of signals from space mixing with human-made noise and melodies of various cultures envelop the space further amplifying the experience of the dust complexity.