카이스트(KAIST)의 미디어아트 연구·작업을 한 자리에서 직접 볼 수 있는 전시가 2026년 봄·여름 영등포아트스퀘어에서 무료로 진행되고 있다. KAIST 산업디자인학과 경험디자인연구실(Experience Design Lab, XD Lab)이 단독 기획·개발한 〈Living Geometry 2026 · 생동 기하학〉이다.
KAIST 산업디자인학과와 XD Lab
KAIST 산업디자인학과는 1986년 국내 공과대학 최초의 디자인 학과로 설립되어, 제품 디자인을 넘어 HCI·인터랙션·UX·미디어아트·서비스 및 시스템 디자인 분야로 확장해 왔다. 2025 QS 세계대학 학과별 순위(Arts and Design)에서 세계 28위·국내 1위, 2025 iF Design Ranking 교육기관 부문에서 세계 1위에 올라 있다.
경험디자인연구실(XD Lab)은 그 학과 안에 자리한 연구·작업 그룹으로, 강이연 교수(디렉터)가 이끈다. 미디어아트·인터랙티브 아트·웹 아트·아트앤테크놀로지·HCI 예술을 가로지르며, Leonardo Journal(MIT Press)·ACM SIGGRAPH·ACM DIS 등의 학술 채널에 게재하고 Red Dot Award·iF Design Award를 받아 왔다.
디렉터 강이연은 Google·NASA·Max Mara·BTS 등과 협업해 온 미디어아트 작가로, Victoria and Albert Museum·COP28에서 개인전을 열었고 2026년 TED 메인 스테이지 연사로 참여했다.
이 전시에서 보는 ‘카이스트 미디어아트’
전시는 카이스트 미디어아트의 두 갈래 — *예술적 창작*과 *학술적 연구* — 가 한 작품 안에서 어떻게 만나는지를 7개 작업을 통해 보여준다.
강이연 〈Vanishing 2.0〉(2025)·〈Technosphere〉(2026), 서민혁 〈Post-Vanishing〉(2026) — 인류세·테크노스피어·포스트 휴먼 도시를 다루는 단채널 영상 미디어아트.
황인태 〈Goldilocks〉(2025)·〈Vessel〉(2026) — 센서·생체 데이터·실시간 도시 데이터를 결합한 인터랙티브 설치. 카이스트의 공학적 정밀함이 매체 실험으로 직접 옮겨진 사례.
최정윤 〈∫ · Banpo-Xism(반포자이즘)〉(2026) — Claude Code를 활용해 작가 단독으로 약 12만 줄 규모의 멀티 디바이스 웹 시스템을 구현한 다중 기기 웹 작품. AI 코딩이 비평적 미디어아트 안에서 작동하는 한국 사례.
서민혁 〈City'scape + Tied〉(2026) — 문(門)이라는 물리적 장치와 영상·인터랙션을 결합한 상황 디자인.
방문 정보 (요약)
기간 — 2026년 5월 1일부터 6월 28일까지. 매일 10:00–18:00 운영, 입장 마감 17:45.
장소 — 영등포아트스퀘어. 서울 영등포구 영중로 15 타임스퀘어 지하 2층. 영등포역(1호선·KTX) 도보 3분.
KAIST Media Art — KAIST XD Lab's 2026 Special Exhibition Living Geometry 2026
KAIST's media-art research and practice can be seen in one room this spring and summer at YDP Artsquare in Yeongdeungpo, Seoul — Living Geometry 2026, curated and developed by KAIST Experience Design Lab (XD Lab) and free through June 28.
KAIST Industrial Design and XD Lab
KAIST Industrial Design (ID KAIST), founded in 1986 as the first design department at any Korean engineering college, has grown from product design into HCI, interaction, UX, media art, and service & systems design. It placed 28th worldwide (1st in Korea) in the 2025 QS Arts & Design rankings and 1st worldwide in the 2025 iF Design Ranking among education institutions.
The Experience Design Lab (XD Lab) is a research and practice group within that department, led by Professor Yiyun Kang. Its work spans media art, interactive art, web art, art-and-technology, and HCI art; it publishes in Leonardo Journal (MIT Press), ACM SIGGRAPH, and ACM DIS, and has received Red Dot and iF Design Awards.
Director Yiyun Kang is a media artist with collaborations including Google, NASA, Max Mara, and BTS, solo exhibitions at the Victoria and Albert Museum and COP28, and a TED 2026 main-stage talk.
How KAIST media art appears in this exhibition
Living Geometry 2026 shows the two sides of KAIST media art — artistic practice and academic research — meeting inside individual works.
Yiyun Kang's Vanishing 2.0 (2025) and Technosphere (2026), with Minhyeok Seo's Post-Vanishing (2026): single-channel video media art on the Anthropocene, the technosphere, and the post-human city.
Intae Hwang's Goldilocks (2025) and Vessel (2026): sensor-driven interactive installations combining biofeedback and real-time urban data — engineering precision moved directly into a medium of art.
Jeanyoon Choi's ∫ (Banpo-Xism) (2026): a multi-device web work of roughly 120,000 lines, developed by the artist alone using Claude Code — a Korean case of AI engineering inside critical media art.
Minhyeok Seo's City'scape + Tied (2026): a situational design fusing a physical door with video and interaction.
Visit (in brief)
May 1 to June 28, 2026 at YDP Artsquare (Times Square B2F, Yeongdeungpo). Daily 10:00–18:00 (last entry 17:45). Free, no reservation. ~60–90 minutes.
Visit
Exhibition :: KAIST media art special exhibition · Living Geometry 2026
Curated by :: KAIST Experience Design Lab (XD Lab)
Director :: Prof. Yiyun Kang (KAIST Industrial Design)
Artists :: Yiyun Kang, Jeanyoon Choi, Intae Hwang, Minhyeok Seo — all KAIST Industrial Design
KAIST Media Art — KAIST XD Lab's 2026 Special Exhibition Living Geometry 2026
KAIST's media-art research and practice can be seen in one room this spring and summer at YDP Artsquare in Yeongdeungpo, Seoul — Living Geometry 2026, curated and developed by KAIST Experience Design Lab (XD Lab) and free through June 28.
KAIST Industrial Design and XD Lab
KAIST Industrial Design (ID KAIST), founded in 1986 as the first design department at any Korean engineering college, has grown from product design into HCI, interaction, UX, media art, and service & systems design. It placed 28th worldwide (1st in Korea) in the 2025 QS Arts & Design rankings and 1st worldwide in the 2025 iF Design Ranking among education institutions.
The Experience Design Lab (XD Lab) is a research and practice group within that department, led by Professor Yiyun Kang. Its work spans media art, interactive art, web art, art-and-technology, and HCI art; it publishes in Leonardo Journal (MIT Press), ACM SIGGRAPH, and ACM DIS, and has received Red Dot and iF Design Awards.
Director Yiyun Kang is a media artist with collaborations including Google, NASA, Max Mara, and BTS, solo exhibitions at the Victoria and Albert Museum and COP28, and a TED 2026 main-stage talk.
How KAIST media art appears in this exhibition
Living Geometry 2026 shows the two sides of KAIST media art — artistic practice and academic research — meeting inside individual works.
Yiyun Kang's Vanishing 2.0 (2025) and Technosphere (2026), with Minhyeok Seo's Post-Vanishing (2026): single-channel video media art on the Anthropocene, the technosphere, and the post-human city.
Intae Hwang's Goldilocks (2025) and Vessel (2026): sensor-driven interactive installations combining biofeedback and real-time urban data — engineering precision moved directly into a medium of art.
Jeanyoon Choi's ∫ (Banpo-Xism) (2026): a multi-device web work of roughly 120,000 lines, developed by the artist alone using Claude Code — a Korean case of AI engineering inside critical media art.
Minhyeok Seo's City'scape + Tied (2026): a situational design fusing a physical door with video and interaction.
Visit (in brief)
May 1 to June 28, 2026 at YDP Artsquare (Times Square B2F, Yeongdeungpo). Daily 10:00–18:00 (last entry 17:45). Free, no reservation. ~60–90 minutes.
Transit :: 3-min walk from Yeongdeungpo Station (Line 1 / KTX)
About the exhibition
Living Geometry 2026 is a media-art special exhibition curated and developed by the KAIST Experience Design Lab (XD Lab) within KAIST's Department of Industrial Design. It re-threads Yeongdeungpo's visible urban landscape, its invisible data, and the emotional strata behind them in a geometric language — recasting the city, beyond a stilled aggregate of concrete, as an organism in continual pulse. Seven works span single-channel video, interactive installation, and multi-device web art.
Title :: Living Geometry 2026 · 생동 기하학 (Living Geometry)
Dates :: May 1 – Jun 28, 2026
Hours :: Daily 10:00–18:00 (last entry 17:45)
Venue :: YDP Artsquare · Times Square B2F, 15 Yeongjung-ro, Yeongdeungpo-gu, Seoul
