Audrey DOh

Interactive Installation

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.


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    Geum (2024)


                Created in collaboration with Haneul Seo, Keyi Ding

    Materials
    Clay, gold leaf, copper wire, conductive paint, Daisy microcontroller, capacitive sensor, ToF sensor, plywood, neopixels, speaker

    Dimensions
    16 x 16 x 40 inches 

    Skills
    Ceramics, code-generated notes, Kintsugi techniques


    Close-up view of ceramic sculpture, Geum (2024) 



    Description

     “Geum (금)” is an interactive sound and light sculpture exploring the embodied duality of the Korean word geum (금), which means both the precious metal “gold” and “crack” or “fracture” on a surface. Drawing from kintsugi, the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with gold, each crack on the ceramic bowl is mended with touch-sensitive gold fillings. When participants gently trace their hands over these gilded fractures, they activate ambient light and sound responses that shift based on the location and duration of the touch.



    Left: Audience Interaction with Geum (2024) at Interactive Media Show, Brooklyn, NY
    Center: Geum (2024), detail shot
    Right: Geum (2024),  full shot



    This interaction becomes a collective meditation on healing, where what was once broken is reactivated as a conduit of sensation. As audience bath in a symphony of light and sound through touch, the two definitions of the word “geum” come full circle: tracing “fractures” of “gold,” embodying a unique, evolving journey of resilience.