Okchundang: Rotational Accumulations, 2025, Generative Animation

Okchundang: Rotational Accumulations is a generative animation inspired by the form of the traditional Korean confectionery Okchundang, exploring how cultural forms can be abstracted and reconstituted through algorithmic processes. The artist simplifies the circular structure of Okchundang, deconstructs it into radial fragments, and uses a code-based algorithm to stack and repeat these elements, generating larger visual structures. In the interplay between randomness and rule, subtle variations in rotation and alignment produce shifts in pattern and density, while the contrast of vivid colors creates rhythm and visual tension. Within a fixed set of rules, the endlessly transforming images reveal how traditional formal language can be translated into a new abstract order within the logic of digital algorithms. By transposing the materiality of traditional form into digital code, Okchundang: Rotational Accumulations exposes the artistic condition in which digital images are produced and circulated without physical substance. The artist presents the generative algorithmic process itself as the essence of the work, proposing that the artwork no longer exists as a fixed object but as an immaterial event emerging from data and computation. Continuously transforming according to its display environment and medium, the work reflects the openness and elasticity of digital media, serving as a model that reconsiders how digital art is produced, owned, and exhibited, and more fundamentally, what defines the conditions of art in the digital age.