Hangul Project: Exploring Intercultural visual dialogues between Korean and English

Ahn, Yeohyun; Ahn, Yeohyun

Hangul Project investigates bilingual experiences between English and Korean as experiential typographic forms and narratives. It is multidisciplinary typography research in collaboration with diverse mediums from typeface design, ceramic, motion graphics, generative art, 3D printing, machine learning, and performance. Each medium delivers the bilingual experiences as visual, interactive, tangible, and playable letterforms by using the typeface, Hangul alphabet. Hangul Alphabet is an English typeface designed using Korean consonants and vowels for the translingual experience. Type Portrait: Hangul Alphabet explores generative self-portrait photographs to express and portray the artist's bi-cultural identity using the typeface Korean-American. Physical Type expands the typeface to a series of 3D-printed functional and playable objects. Remembrance: Hangul Alphabet is a gamified performance art project using brain wave interactions. It uses machine learning to generate interactive animations which respond to EEG brain sensor feedback. HangBok (Happyness) and YongSeo (Pardon) Typeface Wall Sculptures combine Korean calligraphic brush strokes with the Hangul Alphabet typeface that depict bicultural experiences on the ceramic surface. Love and Care juxtaposes the raw beauty of the female form with the elegance of the typeface on the ceramic hanging sculptures with flowing figure drawings on the vessel surfaces. This show will present and discuss bilingual and intercultural exposure between English and Korean to articulate new visual narratives from intercultural perspectives. It suggests cross-cultural and bilingual visual contents integrating with diverse materials and new emerging technoloties

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Hangul Project: Exploring Intercultural visual dialogues between Korean and English