Living Geometry 2026 — At-a-Glance Overview
This page is a quick-scan summary of Living Geometry 2026 — read top-down: exhibition overview → four participating artists → seven artworks. Each item links to its own dedicated page if you want to dive deeper.
Exhibition overview
Living Geometry 2026 (생동 기하학) is a media-art special exhibition curated by Director Yiyun Kang and produced by KAIST Industrial Design's Experience Design Lab (XD Lab), held at YDP Artsquare (Times Square B2F, Seoul) from May 1 to June 28, 2026. Seven works — four single-channel videos, two interactive installations, and one multi-device web piece — weave together Yeongdeungpo's visible urban landscape, its invisible data layers, and the emotional strata beneath in a 'living geometric' language. Free admission, no reservation, daily 10:00–18:00 (last entry 17:45).
Participating artists (4)
Yiyun Kang (강이연)
Yiyun Kang is Professor of Industrial Design at KAIST and Director of the Experience Design Lab (XD Lab) — a media artist and researcher. Through immersive projection and site-specific installation, she translates contemporary crises (climate, AI) into the language of sensory experience. She has collaborated with Google, NASA, Max Mara, and BTS; held solo exhibitions at the Victoria and Albert Museum, COP28, and Fondation Fiminco; and given international talks including TED 2026.
Jeanyoon Choi (최정윤)
Jeanyoon Choi is a PhD researcher at KAIST XD Lab, producing critical interactive artworks built on web and AI code. He studied Industrial Engineering at Seoul National University and graduated from Information Experience Design at the Royal College of Art (London); he has taught interaction design at the Korea National University of Arts. Group shows include Ars Electronica, IDAF, and Design Korea.
Intae Hwang (황인태)
Intae Hwang is a Master's student at KAIST XD Lab working as an artist and researcher in interactive data art. He crystallizes data into new phenomena, awakening the joy of witnessing truth in an increasingly complex world. His works have been exhibited at the Fiminco Foundation, YDP Art Square, KF XR Gallery, Ground Seoul, and KAIST.
Minhyeok Seo (서민혁)
Minhyeok Seo is a Master's student at KAIST XD Lab. He aims to create interactive artworks and immersive spaces that embody complex human emotions. His works were exhibited at KF XR Gallery and KAIST.
Works on view (7, in route order)
1. Vanishing 2.0 (배니싱 2.0) — Yiyun Kang et al., 2025
A 3-minute-30 single-channel video confronting the sixth mass extinction. First unveiled on the large outdoor screen at COEX in Seoul; 〈Vanishing 2.0〉 moves past elegy to imagine what might emerge after disappearance.
2. Technosphere (테크노스피어) — Yiyun Kang, 2026
A 2-minute-7 single-channel video that gives visual form to the technosphere — humanity's artificial 'sixth sphere,' settling into the Earth as a new geological stratum.
3. Post-Vanishing (사라진 후에) — Minhyeok Seo, 2026
Picking up after 〈Vanishing 2.0〉, this single-channel video imagines a city left behind by humans through three creatures — each embodying its matter, its connections, and its surfaces.
4. City'scape + Tied (떨어지지 않는 풍경) — Minhyeok Seo, 2026
An interactive installation that uses a physical device — a door — to stage the layered emotions a person feels inside the city. Opening and closing the door transforms the landscape on the screen beyond the frame.
5. Goldilocks (골디락스) — Intae Hwang, 2025
Borrowing the Goldilocks-zone concept, this interactive installation invites visitors to compose their own weather across seven meteorological parameters, then maps it against Seoul's live climate data to reveal a collective Goldilocks zone.
6. Vessel (베슬) — Intae Hwang, 2026
A dual-channel interactive data sculpture translating a year of Seoul's mobility data into geometry. Touch the pulse sensor and the city's beat resonates with your own heartbeat.
7. Banpo-Xism (반포자이즘, ∫) — Jeanyoon Choi, 2026
A multi-device web artwork combining AI-generated apartments, sound, text, and code. Visitors scroll and tap on their own phones, integrating the two-dimensional plane of Korean real-estate value into a differentiable manifold — a critical web piece reading 'Banpo-Xism' through Flatland and the ten-dimensional spacetime of string theory.
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