MIN YOUNG KIM

Installation

Sugar Engine 슈거 엔진
Disaster Studies 재난 연구
Giant Whisper 자이언트위스퍼
Companions 곁
Yesterday’s Today 어제의오늘

Performance

Alain 알랭
Holymotors 홀리모터스
Hide and Seek 숨바꼭질

Research

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Info / CV

Yesterday's Today

2019

real-time simulation with weather API data

‘Yesterday's Today’ displays last week's weather prediction for today through a real-time simulation that reveals the gap between projection and reality. Installed in Chelsea and Westminster Hospital examination rooms, the work renders digital landscapes using forecast data from exactly one week ago—if last week predicted sun while rain falls outside, the digital environment remains stubbornly sunny. This temporal disconnect makes visible when data loses predictive value, when information transforms from useful to obsolete.

The simulation's gentle errors—wrong cloud formations, misplaced sunshine—offer meditation on uncertainty inherent in all predictive systems, whether meteorological or medical. By making forecast failures beautiful rather than problematic, the work suggests living with uncertainty becomes more bearable when we remember even sophisticated predictions remain educated guesses about tomorrow.

Commissioned by CW+ Relax Digital Programme

Installation view at the waiting room of the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, 2021

Excerpt of site-specific video simulation, 2021