Interactive Installation
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Digital Art
Community Work
Artist Declaration —
Audrey Doh (b. 1996, South Korea) is a multidisciplinary artist who repurposes technology as vessels for ritual, tradition, and collective meaning-making. Her work investigates enduring cultural practices, exploring how communities construct alternative belief systems when scientific measurement encounters the unmeasurable. Through sensor-based interactions, embedded systems, and projected media, Doh creates quiet, contemplative rituals that invite audiences to move beyond monolithic reality toward multiple, intersecting systems of meaning.
Canned Fire (2025)
Materials
LED, plywood, copper coil, 3D printed plastic, neodymium magnet, velcro strap, breadboard circuit (capacitor, diode, wire)
Dimensions
4.5 x 8.5 x 2 inches
Skills
Kinetic Mechanisms, Electricity Generation, Rectifier Circuit
Description
"Canned Fire" is a wearable electromagnetic device that transforms human movement into light. Inspired by Jwibulnori (쥐불놀이)—a Korean lunar new year ritual where cans filled with burning coal are swung in circles to create glowing rings of fire—this device reimagines the ritual through modern energy-harvesting techniques.
Using simple components - a magnet, copper wire, and plastic cylinder - this device harvests kinetic potential energy from the same circular swinging motion of the arms. As the wearer moves, magnets slide freely through the copper coil, generating electromagnetic flux that produces electricity to power four LEDs. An internal circuit board with capacitors harvests, stores, and regulates this energy for consistent light output. The result is a residual path of light that visually records the wearer’s unique motion over time.
By re-enacting the ancestral act of swinging light, “Canned Fire” preserves the ritual’s circular motion and fleeting trails of light while transforming the human body into both a vessel of cultural memory and an active generator of energy. The work explores how tradition and technology can intersect—and how energy, both symbolic and literal, can be drawn from our own lived movement.
[Link to Documentation]