Seoul is alive, a city bustling with eager people in their twenties. But where are the old people? Hardly any people in their sixties are ever sighted. Even more, the long-term foreign residents rarely show any movement, as if they are anchored to a specific location. As you can see on the screen, the numbers, the movements, and the dots are all of us. They represent ourselves. A myriad of data embodies the movements within the city.
Based on raw data, we visualized the flow of big data related to the population of Seoul city.
The three-dimensional images of the dots seem to take on the form of particles drifting across outer space. Let’s assume that these dots indicate the movements of the people living in Seoul.
This world of numbers before us has the immense power to draw us into the world of data in a moment, and so transfixed by it, we are left looking at it for quite some time. Is this because data is the product of a very real phenomenon?

The *City Rhythm* project includes a section with the subtitle *LOST*, which shows the image of the city depicted as a point cloud, rendered by scanning the city with a 3D scanner. It seems to be packed with particles of dust—an ethereal hallucination in a virtual world. Departing from the boundless universe of data, we set our feet on one narrow street of Seoul. It felt even smaller than a dot. The entity you come across may be a joyful rhythm beating inside your heart, a lonely rhythm standing unaccompanied, or a hectic and restless rhythm that always has to be somewhere, anywhere but here. *LOST* embodies such rhythms.
We may seem to be lonely beings that stand in the middle of the city, lost, without any indication of where to go or how to get to another place.We are the people who reside in the same space, yet we never meet each other. Aren’t we all just a little dot?

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Director: Kim Siyeon
Producer and writer: Park Seoeun
Graphics: Kim Siyeon, Park Jiyoon, Woo Hyeunjoo
Composer: Kim Siyeon
Editor: Kim Siyeon
Voice: Ariane Carmignac
Sound design, mixing: Kim Siyeon
Data: Kim Wooil, Park Hoontae
Engineering help: Kim Hojoong, Shin Joongho, Jeong Sangchul, Lee Sanghoon
Production: ARTLab
Coordinator: Suh Heesun / K’occa

With the support of Korea Creative Content Agency

Siyeon Kim (KR) is a multimedia artist, film director, and photographer who graduated from National School of Photography (FR) and studied philosophy at Paris-Sorbonne University. One work, *Tremblement*, has received several awards including the grand prix of 16th LVMH Young Artists’ Awards(2009) and was shown in France at the Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais. *Winter* was selected as a collection by the National Museum of Contemporary Art (KR) in 2015.
The surrounding environment, the city, and people's emotions are central to her work, which focuses on hierarchical structures and how people who have compromised hierarchical order change society, and on the actual events that awaken the mechanical repetition of life.