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			In the spring of 2020, when people entered their homes and emptied the city, people became invisible to the square and the market. Relationships with nowhere to go were quickly mediated and transmitted to networks of reproduction and communication. Holding hands, talking face to face, and eating the same air and food have become written or written on the network. People have complained of fatigue over network relationships that overlook things that are not verbally represented, such as body temperature or the moment when the corners of the mouth muscles are twisted. "I can't be the same again," he said, missing the romance of the face-to-face era. 


 But there are times when I feel lonely even when I'm together. The reality of sharing may be one, but it is because there are as many lives and inner worlds as we do. Even if time and space are shared, there is no way to know which dimension the mind is flying in. Because each soul has a different world, and to each soul, different souls are beyond the world1. Sharing life with someone else is more than living the same time in the same space. Even though we eat and talk together, there are times when we feel like we can hardly connect our minds. Like the silence of the living room where the family sitting around the sofa has entered their respective terminals, our bodies are still in the air, but our hearts are far away. 


 We believe that the universe of those disconnected individuals can be connected to incomplete legs of language, and we pile up stories of the other in my world. But my memory of the opponent is only my fiction about him. Sometimes the two too different stories cannot be continued, but they push them out in the air. Sometimes those who are good at reality publish their stories as if they were made up of them, distorting the other person's existence to their own taste. And the memory that grows in their hearts and makes the reality surrounding them seem plausible creates a vision of love. The man on that screen, like a hypnotic hypnotist, summons the presence of a lover in a space that is not beyond the screen in the adept language of a cheater who makes up what has never happened (Vito Akonchi). He hugs his lover's body with his tongue, which he doesn't even know his face. I don't think love requires a body. Love is inherently asymmetrical and (unilateral) delusional. Love not only mediates one world and beyond it, but also is a disturbance of order across dimensions and boundaries, representing the impulse of the body as a coalition, transmitting the trembling of the mind to the field of physical desire (the popularity of romance that connects the hearts of distant lovers as love deftly deceives the order of the families and classes and construction that are wary of it transcends time and space. 


 But just because love is made in language and is mediated by technology, it cannot be said to be lighter than love that is skin-to-skinned.5. Love there is as real as love here. No matter how superficial it may seem, there we are equally enamored of each other (Lea Collette & Mario's Stamatis). Technology allows us to broaden our soul's horizons by flying over transparent images with friends who are out of touch, looking down at places we've never been to before, as if to make our soul's love for somewhere else other than here come true (Kang Eun-hee). But beyond reality, it must be remembered that blind love for a better place may ruin reality with unbearably devastated. When worshiping heaven, idolizing a white, clean body, or adoring a world beyond absolute, eternity would be nothing but a limit or obstacle. (You can't be happy forever if you keep craving for more 6.) 


 Connectivity is a technique used to bridge love, but also a technique of disconnecting people who believe that they can love without a body and live with the body isolated. Today's communication and reproduction technology, which bridges the mind wherever it is, removes the distance between people and people, while setting up an impenetrable firewall in front of everyone's faces. Connectivity makes everyone's isolation sustainable, and everyone's isolation again increases the density of the network. The technique of mediating distance is, after all, a technique for maintaining distance. Connectivity and disconnection are the conditions and results of each other, and the spirit connected to the disconnected body is the human model of today living in it. The possibilities of relationships in the network are as real as isolated individual solitude, and the disconnection of existence also exists like a shadow under the optimistic uplift of digital USIM.

Im Jin-ho Outsite Curator [Source] Outsite homepage