Ji-Hoon Jang

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Bachelors of Fine Art

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Ji-Hoon Jang is a multimedia artist working with video, hand-drawn animations and illustrations. He creates both traditional narrative short movies and experimental short videos that explore the mundane in different speed and scale. Ji-Hoon Jang is currently completing his BFA in Film, Video, and New Media Art at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He is born in Seoul, Korea, and lives and works in Chicago, IL.

He has screened his work at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago ExTv (2018), and the Gene Siskel Film Center (2018). His work will be exhibited at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago ExTv (2019), throughout February 2019.

Puppetual Hell, 2019, Video, 1:11

Puppetual Hell is a puppet animation peice about a puppet stuck in a timeloop.

I'm Late, 2018,Video, 1:06

I'm Late is a short story about a bunny professor that is late to class, inspired by the rabbit in Alice in Wonderland.

Bird Ballet, 2022, Video, 0:53

Bird Ballet is a abtract ballet piece made in Adobe Aftereffects, about a bird that wishes to have friends.

Puppetual Hell, 2019, Video, 1:11

2022, Video, 0:53

2018, Video, 1:06

The short video art I produce rewrite the time-consuming process of production, organization, and planning that goes into making an art work, by taking mere moments of simple action and turning them into experimental video pieces.
I start by questioning how simple actions could transform within video in different pace and space, often experimenting by manipulating speed, scale and orientation of short clips of day to day actions that I take with my DSLR.
In contrast, the enormous amount of time consumed to make a short piece is also shown in my use of hand drawn animations, which require several hours of work to animate a few seconds, overlapped on top of drawn-out videos of simple actions such as drinking a bottle of water.
The results are short videos that provide both examples of how time spent does not equal the value of an art piece.
Although the running time of the piece does not always define its value, I believe my videos could be a starting point for the discussion about what and who gets to define the worth of an art.

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