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망각의 불운한 날(Unluckyday of Oblivion)
By Eunji Song · DE
Recently, a series of events struck me all at once. I was forced to leave the house where I had lived for more than three years, I found myself increasingly confronted by people who picked fights with me for no reason, and the hard drive full of files I had organized, or more honestly, crammed in, suddenly stopped working. On top of that, I experienced racial discrimination more frequently than before, and I gradually grew apart from friends I had been close to. I decided to give these consecutive events a single name: “Unlucky.” As I wondered how I might restart a brain that had stopped from psychological stress, I recalled the uncomfortable truth that humans, or at least I, sometimes take secret comfort in the misfortune of others. So instead of staying with my own bad luck, I turned toward someone else’s, or rather, something else’s. A memory surfaced of what might have been a particularly unlucky day for a goat. When I was young, my grandmother’s house had a lot of livestock. They roamed the village freely but inevitably ended up on our dining table. One day, while walking along a familiar path, I came across a family of goats. In front of the adults, I quietly but clearly said, “That looks delicious,” and smacked my lips. The next time we visited my grandmother’s house, I was, in fact, served goat meat. Memory transforms over time. Perhaps the goat was destined to die anyway. Perhaps there had been a village feast just before our visit. Yet I wanted to seal that moment as my own memory. Working with AI allows me to reconstruct a personal memory through images formed from traces beyond my own experience. Like memory or a dream, those images can become familiar, strange, and uncanny at the same time. I use AI not to reproduce the past faithfully, but to give form to a memory that has already changed over time.
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- VIDEO
- Approved
- 24 August 2026
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