red button lab fiction
[2025.02.23.10:30] Sunday morning conversations between Dohee & Minseok
> Dohee's work direction: Interested in exploring human perception and senses. Seeks to connect perception with society. Aims to enable audiences to directly experience and make choices through experiential/interactive works.
> Minseok's Interests: Contemplates subjectivity/agency. Interested in the relationship between humans and technology, particularly interactive relationships that transcend the subject-object dichotomy. Hopes to research in the STS (Science and Technology Studies) field.
> Shared Direction: Viewing technology not merely as a tool but as an entity that interacts with humans; valuing both theoretical inquiry and practical approaches; considering communication with the public and accessibility.
> Future Collaboration Potential: Conceptualization workshop (scheduled for March 22), possibility of jointly conducting experimental projects, considering joint participation in support programs, and long-term hope for forming a sustainable group/community.
Our Words
- "With AI emerging, I think this pre-production stage has become much more important." […] "We should solidify something together in a creative direction, then make the actual implementation really easy and straightforward."
- "Technology expanding our senses ultimately means broadening the scope of human experience. The question is whether this expansion is truly driven by us or if we're being swayed by technology—this could raise issues about human agency."
- "We constantly ponder how our activities can evolve into a sustainable form, rather than simply remaining a hobby."
- "People might not empathize with why they should view themselves meta-cognitively. We now need special, somewhat fun, extreme worldviews based on certain radical perspectives… to draw people in."
- "Technology and humanity cannot be dichotomized as separate subjects; they are deeply intertwined. How we exercise agency within this is something humans must contemplate, regardless of technological advancement."
- "I hope the forms we create aren't just research materials, but genuinely engaging content. What I always aim for is something people genuinely find fun."
- "If I create technology that allows people to experience something, couldn't it easily enable them to explore questions starting from 'What is this human?' and raise many other thought-provoking topics?"
- "The initiative over time and space—I think about this constantly. […] I also consider the initiative over the space I occupy to be very important."
- "As I mentioned earlier, these are questions and problems I've held onto for a very long time […] Over the past decade, they've become quite fragmented, but now I'm at a stage where they're converging into a specific theme."
What we want to do
- Rather than overly grand goals or burdensome responsibilities, it's about creating small but meaningful ripples.
- The stones we throw are fun experiments/experiences, intriguing questions, fresh perspectives, and small moments of realization.
- The ripples they create are shifts in personal awareness, small-scale conversations and discussions, little acts of practice, and natural spread to those around us.
- Starting with a lighthearted mindset—not "Let's change the world," but "Let's create some fun waves"—might actually take us further!