Tutorial Eve, 2025

Tutorial Eve is a video work that follows Eve, a person who falls in love with a fictional being embodying systems, artificial intelligence, and societal ideals. 

This started from a letter found on a fan-website of Adam, cyber singer from Korea in 1998. In the letter, it said, “I envy you because you don’t have to take exam, concern about friendship.” It stuck with me for a while, because I believe human used to envy birds, cloud, ocean in terms of freedom. I imagined what if we could become free from our body, from painful and sorrowful moments. Will it be the amazing future for us? It seems that we are now living in a time when people aspire to be more like algorithms or logistics systems than ever before.

Along with Eve’s story, the work questions what is lost in humanity’s blind pursuit of reason and efficiency, while simultaneously posing a recursive question: what is the ‘perfect being’ we strive to create ultimately trying to resemble?