2018-2020
Kinetic light installation
Window blinds, LED lights, motors, projection mapping
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 installations that transform familiar architectural objects into unstable sites of perception. The work begins with a fleeting observation: a stripe of light slipping through a window blind. This moment of discontinuity, fragile and easily overlooked, becomes a point of departure for examining how absence, rupture, and distance generate perceptual traces that persist across body and memory.
Vertical blinds are reconfigured into kinetic systems, each concealing an LED light that intermittently illuminates through mechanical disruption. Stripes of light leak across the darkened gallery, intersected by a projected T-shaped line that divides the space. Its vertical axis splits the two corner installations, while its horizontal line demarcates the viewing area, recalling the geometry of a tennis court. This projection reorganizes spatial relations between audience and installation, positioning light as both boundary and connective field.
Through these interactions, light becomes not a vehicle for representation but a material surface that shapes perception. Architectural form, projection, and motion overlap to create an environment where the act of seeing becomes tactile and temporal. Blind Film reconstructs the familiar into a field of shifting presence, revealing light as both a divider and a connector between analog and digital experience.
