Yehwan Song (b. 1995, Seoul, Korea) is an artist and designer questioning standardised design and interface conventions that frame users’ behaviour and the templates that make them lose their content awareness and become accustomed to oversimplification. She constructs hard-to-use devices and interfaces in order to challenge the notion of user-friendliness and bring back users’ content awareness. Her anti-user-friendly interfaces create a situation in which users need to explore and learn before they can use the interfaces. Through this process, users are given an opportunity to become conscious again—in a sense, a form of self-care. She pursues diversity instead of consistency and respects variety in the web environment above efficiency. Her latest group exhibitions include the Typojanchi Biennale, Seoul, South Korea (2019); Virtual School Tour, Venice Biennale Korean Pavilion, Venice, Italy (2020); Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism, Seoul, South Korea (2021); World on a Wire, New York, USA (2021) and To you: move toward where you are, Seoul, South Korea (2022).
