2018-2020
mixed-media installation
Jack Straws New Media Gallery, Seattle.WA Feb 9th~Mar 30th, 2018
black vertical window-blinds, motorized kinetic system, LED flood lighting, radio, tv receiver, computer
dimension varies
blind film 
blind film - prototype https://www.jackstraw.org/exhibit/sangjun-yoo-blind-film/
blind film is a series of new media installations that reconfigure familiar, everyday objects into unstable sites of perception. The work begins with a simple observation: a fleeting stripe of light slipping through a window blind. That moment of discontinuity—fragile, ephemeral, and easily overlooked—became the seed for exploring how absence, rupture, and distance create traces that linger across both body and memory.
The installation transforms vertical window blinds into kinetic systems. Each blind structure conceals a white LED light, intermittently disrupted by motorized sticks that drum against the panels. Stripes of light leak into the gallery, cutting across the darkened space. From the ceiling, a projected T-shaped line divides the room: its vertical axis splitting two corner installations of blinds, and its horizontal axis demarcating the seating area from the installation zone. This projected boundary recalls the markings of a tennis court, suggesting rules of play, yet here it serves to reorganize spatial relations between audience and installation.
As the blinds release intermittent beams, light becomes both an analog and digital agent—simultaneously material and immaterial. The gallery is spatialized through these convergences: architectural structures, beams of light, and projection lines overlap to form momentary constellations. In this crossing, light no longer functions as a medium for representation, but as an architectural surface itself. Viewers sense the screen not only visually but tactually, as it envelops them in an environment of shifting absence and presence.
By weaving together kinetic motion, architectural form, and projected light, blind film stages an intimate, temporal encounter. It reconstructs the familiar into an open constellation where perception is unsettled, and light reveals itself as both divider and connector, collapsing the boundaries between analog and digital sensation.
