English / 한국어
If the websites are rather rough and crude in terms of “user experience,” their conceptual foundations are usually neat and solid. For example, the website of Typojanchi 2013 that Hong Eunjoo and Kim Hyungjae created opens up with a screen enumerating the terms for the exhibited works in a random order, attaching the prefix “Super-” to each of them. The suggested “super-terms,” from “Superghost” to “Superprocessed language,” “Supertrue story” and “Superoxymoron,” illuminate the interests of the exhibition, while playing their own wordplay.
The successive pages, in which the elements are rearranged the moment one touches upon any of them, emphasize the unstable nature of the Supertext. At the base is a “responsive web design” technique (the positions and sizes of elements are automatically adjusted to fit the changing window size), which was originally developed for optimal display of contents. Hong Eunjoo and Kim Hyungjae mis- and overuse the technique to create the nervous state of the over-optimized. The “over-responsive” Typojanchi 2013 site does not simply present the works in a neutral way: rather, it seems to suggest a certain—probably uneasy—perspective on the exhibition.