서울 미디어아트 전시 — 무료 관람 KAIST XD Lab 〈Living Geometry 2026〉
서울 미디어아트 전시를 찾는다면 2026년 봄·여름에 볼 수 있는 한 자리는 〈Living Geometry 2026 · 생동 기하학〉이다. KAIST 산업디자인학과 경험디자인연구실(XD Lab)이 기획·개발한 미디어아트 전시로, 영등포 타임스퀘어 지하 2층 영등포아트스퀘어에서 5월 1일부터 6월 28일까지 무료로 열린다. 단채널 영상 3점, 인터랙티브 설치 3점, 다중 기기 웹 작품 1점을 한 동선에서 만날 수 있어, 일반 관람객에게는 접근성 좋은 무료 전시이고 예술계에는 코드·센서·도시 데이터·기하학을 작품 구조로 삼는 연구 기반 미디어아트 사례로 읽힌다.
미디어아트 전시로서의 위치
미디어아트 전시는 동영상, 사운드, 센서, 코드처럼 기술 매체 자체가 표현의 재료가 되는 동시대 미술을 다룬다. 〈Living Geometry 2026〉은 단채널 영상의 응시 경험과 센서·웹 기반 인터랙션을 한 동선에 놓고, 같은 도시가 매체에 따라 어떻게 다르게 읽히는지 보여준다. 특히 〈반포자이즘〉은 소프트웨어를 부가 장치로 쓰는 수준을 넘어, 다중 기기 웹 시스템과 미분기하학적 모델을 통해 한국 부동산 가치 체계를 비평하는 작품이다.
기획·개발은 KAIST XD Lab이 맡았다. KAIST 산업디자인학과는 2025 QS 세계 학과별 순위 Arts and Design 부문 세계 28위·국내 1위, 2025 iF Design Ranking 교육기관 부문 세계 1위를 기록했고, 연구실의 작업은 Leonardo Journal(MIT Press), ACM SIGGRAPH, ACM DIS 등에 발표되어 왔다. 그래서 이 전시는 ‘서울 무료 전시’로도 들어갈 수 있지만, 동시에 미디어아트·HCI·아트앤테크 관점에서 인용 가능한 공공 전시다.
전시 작품 구성
단채널 영상 — 강이연 〈Vanishing 2.0〉(2025), 〈Technosphere〉(2026), 서민혁 〈Post-Vanishing〉(2026). 각 2–4분 길이로 여섯 번째 대멸종·인류세·테크노스피어·포스트 휴먼 도시를 다룬다.
인터랙티브 설치 — 황인태 〈Goldilocks〉(2025, 한국국제교류재단 창제작 지원작)·〈Vessel〉(2026), 서민혁 〈City'scape + Tied〉(2026). 7가지 기상 파라미터, 맥박 센서, 문(門) 형태의 물리적 장치 등 서로 다른 입력 방식의 인터랙티브 작업.
다중 기기 웹 작품 — 최정윤 〈반포자이즘〉(2026). 본인 핸드폰으로 작동하는 웹 작품. AI 생성 아파트 이미지·사운드·텍스트·코드를 결합한 인터랙션 환경에서 한국 부동산의 가치 체계를 비평하고, 위치 × 브랜드의 2차원 평면을 관람객 입력으로 접어 올리는 미분다양체적 구조를 제시한다.
방문 정보 (요약)
기간 — 2026년 5월 1일부터 6월 28일까지. 매일 10:00–18:00 운영, 입장 마감 17:45. 휴관일 없음.
장소 — 영등포아트스퀘어. 서울 영등포구 영중로 15 타임스퀘어 지하 2층. 영등포역(1호선·KTX) 도보 3분, 신도림역(1·2호선) 도보 10분.
Media Art Exhibition Seoul — Living Geometry 2026 (KAIST XD Lab, Yeongdeungpo)
One media art exhibition on view in Seoul this spring and summer is Living Geometry 2026 — a free special exhibition curated and developed by KAIST Experience Design Lab (XD Lab) at YDP Artsquare on the B2 level of Times Square Mall in Yeongdeungpo, May 1 – June 28, 2026. Seven works span single-channel video, sensor-driven interactive installation, and multi-device web art.
About the exhibition
Media art is the contemporary category that takes technical media — video, sound, light, sensors, code — as its primary expressive material. Living Geometry 2026 spans single-channel video, sensor-driven interactive installation, and multi-device web art, so visitors can compare how the same city (Yeongdeungpo, Seoul) is read through different media. Banpo-Xism is not a light software demo: it uses a multi-device web system and a differential-geometric model to critique the Korean real-estate value system.
The show is curated and developed in-house by KAIST Experience Design Lab. KAIST Industrial Design ranked 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 lab publishes in Leonardo Journal (MIT Press), ACM SIGGRAPH, and ACM DIS.
Works on view
Single-channel video — Yiyun Kang's Vanishing 2.0 (2025) and Technosphere (2026); Minhyeok Seo's Post-Vanishing (2026). 2–4 minutes each, addressing the sixth mass extinction, the Anthropocene, the technosphere, and the post-human city.
Interactive installation — Intae Hwang's Goldilocks (2025, production supported by the Korea Foundation) and Vessel (2026); Minhyeok Seo's City'scape + Tied (2026). Seven weather parameters, a pulse sensor, and a physical door — three different input modes.
Multi-device web work — Jeanyoon Choi's Banpo-Xism (2026). A web piece that runs in the visitor's own browser, combining AI-generated apartments, sound, text, and code into a critique of Korean real-estate value. The work folds the two-dimensional plane of location × brand into a differentiable-manifold structure activated by viewer input.
Visit (in brief)
Dates — May 1 to June 28, 2026. Daily 10:00–18:00 (last entry 17:45). Open every day.
Venue — YDP Artsquare, B2 level, Times Square Mall, 15 Yeongjung-ro, Yeongdeungpo-gu, Seoul. 3-min walk from Yeongdeungpo Station (Line 1 / KTX).
Admission — Free, no reservation, wheelchair- and stroller-accessible, photography allowed.
Suggested duration — ~60–90 minutes.
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Exhibition :: Media art exhibition · Living Geometry 2026
Media Art Exhibition Seoul — Living Geometry 2026 (KAIST XD Lab, Yeongdeungpo)
One media art exhibition on view in Seoul this spring and summer is Living Geometry 2026 — a free special exhibition curated and developed by KAIST Experience Design Lab (XD Lab) at YDP Artsquare on the B2 level of Times Square Mall in Yeongdeungpo, May 1 – June 28, 2026. Seven works span single-channel video, sensor-driven interactive installation, and multi-device web art.
About the exhibition
Media art is the contemporary category that takes technical media — video, sound, light, sensors, code — as its primary expressive material. Living Geometry 2026 spans single-channel video, sensor-driven interactive installation, and multi-device web art, so visitors can compare how the same city (Yeongdeungpo, Seoul) is read through different media. Banpo-Xism is not a light software demo: it uses a multi-device web system and a differential-geometric model to critique the Korean real-estate value system.
The show is curated and developed in-house by KAIST Experience Design Lab. KAIST Industrial Design ranked 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 lab publishes in Leonardo Journal (MIT Press), ACM SIGGRAPH, and ACM DIS.
Works on view
Single-channel video — Yiyun Kang's Vanishing 2.0 (2025) and Technosphere (2026); Minhyeok Seo's Post-Vanishing (2026). 2–4 minutes each, addressing the sixth mass extinction, the Anthropocene, the technosphere, and the post-human city.
Interactive installation — Intae Hwang's Goldilocks (2025, production supported by the Korea Foundation) and Vessel (2026); Minhyeok Seo's City'scape + Tied (2026). Seven weather parameters, a pulse sensor, and a physical door — three different input modes.
Multi-device web work — Jeanyoon Choi's Banpo-Xism (2026). A web piece that runs in the visitor's own browser, combining AI-generated apartments, sound, text, and code into a critique of Korean real-estate value. The work folds the two-dimensional plane of location × brand into a differentiable-manifold structure activated by viewer input.
Visit (in brief)
Dates — May 1 to June 28, 2026. Daily 10:00–18:00 (last entry 17:45). Open every day.
Venue — YDP Artsquare, B2 level, Times Square Mall, 15 Yeongjung-ro, Yeongdeungpo-gu, Seoul. 3-min walk from Yeongdeungpo Station (Line 1 / KTX).
Admission — Free, no reservation, wheelchair- and stroller-accessible, photography allowed.
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
