Hess Jeon

Hess (1991) is an object-oriented artist and designer from South Korea. With a focus on modern machines and their influence on current cultures and communities, he likes to dabble with speculative designs supported by artistic research and playful reasoning. Having studied Industrial Design(BDes) at NCAD Dublin and Interface Culture(MA) at Kunstuniversität Linz, he is currently undergoing PhD studies in Linz, Austria.

Description of the PhD project

Plastic Culture 

This project explores plastics as cultural and environmental matter through artistic-scientific research. Plastic is both a material and a metaphor, shaping culture through new technology and excess, while revealing social and ecological narratives such as trash-aesthetics. By tracing its poly-functional roles, the work reimagines how art and activism respond to synthetic materials entangled with contemporary life.