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The Prix Ars Electronica Archive is a collection enabling search and viewing of all the submissions since 1987. The award-winning projects are documented with catalogue texts and audio-visual media. All other submissions can be searched by title/artist and displayed with year, category in list form. Please cite the credits (artwork name, artist and photographer) and only use the materials if your article is related to Ars Electronica.
LED Eyelash
Soomi Park
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The “LED Eyelash” project was initiated from a very simple question: Why do women want bigger eyes? Asian women’s desire for bigger eyes may be understood as a kind of fetish, the fetish of big eyes, which may be explicable with the plastic surgery obsession. If someone wears it and moves her head, the LED will flicker, following the movement by sensor. It is as simple to use as wearing a false eyelashes and as easy to remove as taking off a piece of jewelry.
Links: http://www.soomipark.com/entry/LEDeyelashes
Links: http://www.soomipark.com/entry/LEDeyelashes
Soomi Park (RK) is a multimedia artist living and working in Seoul. She received her BFA from Sookmyoung Women’s University and MA in digital media design from IDAS (International Design school for Advanced Studies) Hong-Ik University in Seoul, Korea. Most of her art works are born out of a curiosity about new types of emotional design, and her artworks engage with the increasing fascination and banalization of plastic surgery not only in Korea but also in many countries around the world. Her artwork has featured in many online/offline venues all over the world.