Login Odyssey No.1
Login Odyssey No.2
Login Odyssey No.3
Login Odyssey No.4
Login Odyssey No.1 - 4, 2025. Scanned collage and acrylic gouache on LP Record, 30 × 30 cm.
In Login Odyssey, to hear the iris as sound is to listen to the voice of the soul through a microscopic landscape once trapped within the eye. When the intricate, singular maps of each person’s iris are scanned and the position, brightness, and saturation of pixels are translated into variables such as pitch, intensity, and duration, the eye transforms into a score that the ear can finally read. This act of conversion exceeds a technical procedure: it unsettles the very relations between sensation, identity, and data.
Though the iris serves as an ultimate biometric marker of individual identity, the moment it is transposed into sound, only abstract structure and pure aesthetic movement remain. The most private information becomes depersonalized artistic material, revealing a liminal space where individuality and anonymity overlap. Such data sonification destabilizes vision-centered epistemologies, replacing “seeing the world” with the experience of listening to the eye itself. It is a form of “synesthetic anatomy,” in which one organ of the body is translated into another sensory language.
Placed upon the phonograph, the image dissolves into flowing sound; form undergoes resonance and evanescence until every shape disappears into time. To hear the iris as sound is to momentarily externalize the cosmos within, even as we perceive its collapse—a beautiful yet transient performance. The artist expands the phonograph beyond a playback device into an interface that cross-translates image, sound, and data. This experimental phonograph replaces the needle with a 4K camera, scanning the spinning disc’s visual information in real time, converting pixel values into MIDI signals, and composing sound instantaneously.
No longer a “player” but a “transcoder,” the device becomes an artistic tool that deciphers time, light, and sound into multiple languages through a single rotational motion. In an era when AI can generate infinite false faces, what data we place on the turntable confronts us with the ontological question: How do I prove that I am? At the moment the disc is set in motion, a universe is once again translated and reconfigured. In the sounds and silences, the lights and shadows born with each rotation, we discover a “listening portrait” of ourselves—logged in for now, yet destined one day to log out.
Installation view of Login Odyssey at BB&M Gallery.
Photography by BB&M Gallery.