Yehwan Song

Yehwan Song is a Korean-born, New York-based web artist who specializes in creating non-user-centric, unconventional, and diverse independent internet spaces. Her primary focus in her projects is exploring the discomfort and insecurity experienced by marginalized users, often hidden beneath the facade of technological utopianism, marked by excessive comfort, speed, and ease of use. Yehwan satirizes and critiques the overgeneralization of users and the prevalence of templated websites by creating non-generic web interfaces and performing with these websites and devices.

Her work initiates conversations about the political and social contexts that have shaped the current uniform and templated web. It highlights the plight of users who lack fair and legitimate rights in the online environment due to their cultural, political, and linguistic backgrounds. Yehwan’s work serves as a visual method for navigating between online and physical spaces. She creates websites that foster new interactions between users and devices, including performances, and crafts physical installations and sculptures that visualize online spaces and phenomena in diverse materials and contexts, as well as online spaces informed by physical inputs.