Jang

Featured Artist: David B. Jang

Artist Biography

Both an artist and an inventor, David B. Jang is known for his imaginative kinetic installations, which employ hacked consumer electronics and subverted household appliances. These vestiges of technology, with their life's instructions literally coded into their motherboards, are the building blocks of Jang's practice. By deconstructing, re-programming, and reconstituting industrial and commercial castoffs, Jang creates immersive works.

Ultimately, Jang's work is about survival, or what he refers to as "life tactics." For him, survival requires the transformation and maintenance of continuous order, and order mean harnessing energy. But because energy and matter cannot be destroyed, only transformed, his works engage in this reality by maintaining a constant state of motion, transforming and transferring themselves over time. A process in which the work is never realized in its final form, but just like our body, is only continuously progressing.

He is interested in things that can set in a mode of constant production and form-making, that is, ordering, and thus in a constant state of meaning creation. This meaning generation is connected to the human compulsion to produce forms which are connected to the technological system of production that we have set into motion. Requiring the continuous transfer of energy, these ordering systems will almost always be found in the state of maximum disorder or it will move towards it. He sees industrial society operating as a living organism, because they are combined with the organic treatment life forms of our existence.

David B. Jang has exhibited both nationally and internationally at museums and galleries, including: The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Gwangju Design Biennale, South Korea; Laguna Art Museum; Museum of Art and History; Torrance Art Museum; Los Angeles International Airport; Ahha Tulsa Museum; Gilcrease Museum, Oklahoma; Korean Cultural Center; Nagasaki Museum of Fine Art, Japan; Paju Kyoha Art Center, Korea; Shone-show Gallery, China; Heritage Art Center, Philippines; Locust Projects, Miami; AAF, Germany, the Netherlands, and Canada. He has been featured in several publications, such as Miami New Times, Wall Street International, Huffington Post Arts, Art Ltd., Korean American Magazine, ARTPULSE, Artillery, KCET Artbound, Coagula Art Journal, California Contemporary Art Magazine, and Art Week LA, Korea times, Fabrik Media.

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