Kyung Park came to the lecture series with a very specific topic: the New Silk Roads. This ongoing project of several years focuses on visual graphics and imagery in order to digest and analyze historical data, statistics, and cultural patterns. With its incredible diversity, legacy and history, Asia was once unified through the Old Silk Roads where commerce, communication, and culture were cultivated. With the end of Colonialism, the end of the Cold War, and the restructuring of Asia to once again become a global power, the New Silk Roads begins to contemplate the relationships between the EU, the Asian countries, and the North American Trade Network. Whereas geography and mapping used to focus on how we perceive the world, Kyung Park wishes to explore geography and mapping to focus on how we use the world.
Above: Captured image from animated video: the city as an organism. If the human is a single-cell, low-level intelligence life form, the city becomes a collective of humans all working together to create a large, intelligent, multi-dimensional being.
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