Wired: Gosiwon is a 3D animated VR film that portrays three characters living in Gosiwon, which are low-cost, single-room accommodations in South Korea that are often susceptible to fires.

Wired figures are used to symbolize the entangled and fragile nature of individuals in contemporary life and to question the complex realities and substances emerging from emptiness. The film integrates generative AI for textures and machine learning systems for sound and music as assets that belong in a virtual world. By leveraging AI’s imperfections, the film reveals the contradictions and complexities of data within the physical and digital realities that we inhabit.

Director:

Sojung Bahng

Sojung Bahng is a South Korean artist, VR filmmaker, and researcher, currently working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Film and Media at Queen’s University, Canada. She explores cinematic media through digital technologies, focusing on aesthetic and narrative experiences within cultural and philosophical contexts, and her works have been showcased and presented at prestigious festivals and symposiums worldwide.