‘Urban Impressions’ at the Moody Center for the Arts is on display through...
“This new work was based on my experience of being in such a crowded, urban environment in Vietnam and Japan,” Chung says. “The visual language of all the signs look a bit like cartoons. The signs are cohesive and still hilarious — I think you can compose your own narrative.”
“Specifically, the region where my dad was a pilot and the airfield where he was captured,” Chung says. During the Vietnam War, her father flew helicopters in the South Vietnamese Air Force; he was taken prisoner in 1971 and spent 14 years in a North Vietnamese prison camp. “Now the trees are gone, and urban developments are built over these historic sites in the name of progress.”
She rendered more then 100,000 images using Google Mesh. They flash in rapid succession next to a student’s response to her installation; at one point, a SpongeBob SquarePants sequence appears next to Shanghai covered in vines. “The colors are intentionally intense,” she shares. “I love the way you can walk around in the work as it moves and changes.”
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