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Jinjoon Lee's artistic practice is distinguished by a wide-ranging humanistic inquiry into enduring questions arising from the intersection of civilization, nature, and technology. Working primarily in the medium of moving image and utilizing advanced digital tools such as AI and game engines, Lee draws upon an array of ideas and references from such fields as literature, anthropology, history, and politics to create works that are by turns conceptual and poetic, intellectual and emotional. In Wandering Sun (2022-), for example, his series of immersive installations of game-engine-generated sunrises, the artist integrates such disparate elements as memories of his childhood hometown, NASA data sets of atmospheric particulates, and 11th-century classical Chinese poetry to delve into the perceptual and symbolic dimensions of the contemporary experience of natural landscapes. In other works such as Good Morning, Mr. G-Dragon (2025), Lee turns his focus to the fraught convergence of culture and technology. Using generative AI and biometric iris data from the eponymous global K-pop star, the artist created a media work that was transmitted via satellite into space. A speculative message sent into the vast cosmos, a meditation on the nature of fame, and a melancholic nod to the optimism of Nam June Paik's landmark satellite broadcast, Good Morning, Mr. Orwell in 1984, the work is an inquiry into the emotional and spiritual depths of human existence in a world ever more permeated by technology.
