The Unmined
Gyung Jin ShinThe publication is an archive and an extension of the exhibition of the same title that happened in Current Plans in Hong Kong. The works explore the intersections among digital labour, data colonialism, and the rise of “emotional” big data. By reverse-engineering data mining and using procedural modelling, the artist assumes the role of a miner who extracts human sentiments that are overlooked or dismissed as useless in capitalist value systems.
Gyung Jin Shin (b.1983, South Korea, based in Hong Kong) is an artist and researcher whose work explores the historical and socio-political dimensions of technicity. Working across sculpture, video, and digital media, her practice critically investigates the ontological shifts of the human within technical milieus. She integrates theoretical research into her artistic practice to recontextualize the relationship between art, technology, and society within a historical trajectory, while exploring the emergence of new subjectivity and authorship under the posthuman condition.
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18x25cm
64
Current Plans Limited
2026
Linda Chiu Han Lai
Gyung Jin Shin
Studio Hik
English, Korean