Artist Statement

 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.