Staff members in NYTV8: New York Talent Contest 2011, Flushing, Queens 2011.
Photograph by NYTV8
Artist Statement
I grew up in South Korea, and spent most of my life in a small town of my
country. To be honest, until I started traveling around world, I have never
thought about any social or political issues that lying behind ongoing world
hegemony and domination by a few powers in this world. However, my traveling experiences widened, and deepened my perspective
of understanding the world.
Similarly, Ki-moon Ban who is the U.N secretary general gave me tremendous
motivation to study world politics. He helped me
to build my perception of the international organizations, also motivated me to
be concerned to the long lasting sociocultural and political influences or outcomes from
the U.N or N.G.Os to the world during last decades. Naturally, the effects of
international organizations, and the dominant powers and its impacts to all
around world in globalization era are the most concerned, and interested
subjects to me.
I still remember that I dreamed of
becoming a famous news reporter when I was young; I was so fascinated by reporters
because I believed the true nature of media is to advocate
the people who are being treated unfairly in society. Thus, I always have such
an admiration toward journalism. Especially to live in “new media” era, in
other words, the era of explosion in citizen journalism, anyone can vocalize their
opinions on the internet. I am well
aware of the power of individual (armature) act of journalism, and believe the
power of crowd sourcing. Lately, the person who has given me huge inspiration is
Julian Paul Assange; he is an activist, publisher and journalist, and most
importantly, he is known as the editor-in-chief and founder of WikiLeaks.
Staff members in NYTV8: New York Talent Contest 2011, Flushing, Queens 2011.
Photograph by NYTV8
When I was engaging various media activities during summer of 2011, I have realized
that without collaborate with others on a project, it is impossible to achieve
any goals. Even if it was a small
project, there were tons of people working together, putting lots of efforts
for a goal. Being exposed by such a passionate, enthusiastic work environment it
has inspired me as a media creator/maker in future.
Ultimately, I intend my work to observe and investigate the role of the
international organizations in our society and its new phase that related to
the world politics and the media. I will approach my blog as my own creative
outlet that to establish factual story in public spaces. I will also find the
way to communicate and work together with diverse groups of people through
online and offline thus my project will have been grounded in accuracy and
objectivity.
