About : Song, Kun

Statement

I am driven by moments that resonate from daily encounters, capturing reflections that range from mundane subtleties to pivotal news. These reflections often germinate into concepts for my work, where I explore and create a liminal space and a nebulous realm. This exploration is achieved through photography, meta and post-photography extensions, and interventions, sometimes incorporating text, montage, moving image, performance, sound, objects, AI algorithms, and installations.

Themes of memory, identity, and diaspora are often explored. I am particularly drawn to the intricate dynamics between image, faith, and moving materiality, with a keen interest in the impacts of modern technology, such as artificial intelligence (AI), on our personal, cultural, historical, and collective memories and unconsciousness, as well as the future that lies beyond.

My practice investigates how artificial intelligence reshapes our perception of imagery, collective memory, and diasporic identity. I engage with AI not merely as a tool, but as a collaborator—working through images, systems, and participation to reveal the spiritual and aesthetic residues, as well as the cultural biases embedded within algorithmic structures. Embracing indeterminacy, my work offers a poetic counter-strategy to the illusion of computational certainty.

Education

Royal College of Art, London
University of Westminster (First Class)
Imperial College London

Selected Exposures

Fortune 108, Qingdao Jiaozhou Yanghe Aishan Processing Industrial Park, China, 2026

Echoes of Truth, Hellerau Photography Award, Technische Sammlungen, Dresden, Germany, 2025

Artist of the Month - June 2025, ArtULTRA, London, UK, 2025

Experimental Film & Video 2025, CICA Museum, Seoul, South Korea, 2025

Source Magazine: Thinking Through Photography, Issue Number: 116, Ireland, 2024

Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize Exhibition, National Portrait Gallery, London, UK, 2024

RCA2024, Royal College of Art, London, UK, 2024

Artist’s Talk, Pathways In & Out of Photography, The Photographer’s Gallery, London UK, 2024

Offprint, Tate Modern, London, UK, 2024

WIP, Bridge Studio, Royal College of Art, London, 2023

Mirrors of Believing, B & W Darkroom Studio, Royal College of Art, London, 2023

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